Published by Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture

2013 Vienna — Austria

Imprint

Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture – Film Division Barbara Fränzen – Director Concordiaplatz 2 1014 Vienna/Austria +43 1 531 20–68 80 [email protected] www.bmukk.gv.at

Publisher and Concept Carlo Hufnagl – Film Division

Editor Brigitte Mayr

Translation Christine Wagner

Photographs Directors © Joerg Burger © Reinhard Mayr (p. 25, p. 35)

Editorial Deadline October 2013

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INTRODUCTION 9 Breaking Patterns by Federal Minister Claudia Schmied 10 Seeking the Challenge of Innovation by Philip Cheah

FACTS + FIGURES 14 Budget 15 Most Frequent Festival Screenings 2010–2013 16 Most Frequent Rentals 1995–2013 17 Most International Awards Received 1995–2013 18 Outstanding Artist Awards 18 Austrian Art Award 19 Thomas Pluch Screenplay Award

RECENT SUCCESSES 21 Most Wanted

FILMS 45 Fiction 53 Documentary 71 Avant-garde

75 Fiction Short 81 Documentary Short 87 Avant-garde Short

FILMS COMING SOON 101 Fiction Coming Soon 109 Documentary Coming Soon 149 Avant-garde Coming Soon

153 Fiction Short Coming Soon 157 Documentary Short Coming Soon 163 Avant-garde Short Coming Soon

SCHOLARSHIPS FOR YOUNG TALENTS 175 Start-Up Grants for Young Film Artists

CONTACT ADDRESSES 182 Production Companies 184 Sales 185 Directors

INDEX 188 Films 190 Directors

introduction facts + figures > 8>9 Introduction Breaking Patterns

When Michael Haneke’s film Amour was officially nomi- nated for five Academy Awards and Christoph Waltz named among the nominees for Best Supporting Actor, many in the film industry asked: How does Austria do it? How does a small country like that manage to keep coming up with major achievements that attract the international spotlight? What is the secret of Austrian film’s success?

Foto: Repolusk Michael Haneke and Christoph Waltz are but two represen- tatives of an Austrian film scene that is on the up and up. First-rate productions and outstanding performances are garnering widespread acclaim from far beyond Austria’s borders. A combination of two factors is key to this success. For one thing, Austria has got effective structures in place to recognize and nurture talent and offer focused support. For another, in the art world the greatest success is achieved by those who develop their own forms of expres sion. Who embark on new ways of entering into dialogue with their audi- ences, fostering emotional and intellectual exchange. It is through them that we get the chance to experience what is new, radical and, at times unthought of.

Austria’s film funding structures offer filmmakers opportunities to explore new paths and break existing patterns. The combination of enabling structures and the artists involved has enormously advanced Austrian film. Growing international recognition is its just reward.

May this catalogue provide you with many stimulating discoveries!

Dr. Claudia Schmied Federal Minister for Education, the Arts and Culture

English translation (c) Christine Wagner Seeking the Challenge of Innovation Philip Cheah

In Asia, we can only dream of what Austria is doing. State film funding for experi- mental and innovative films challenging the boundaries of cinema is unthinkable for many countries in Southeast Asia. In Singapore, for example, the mantra is that the arts must exist in the market. Funding for films is therefore predicated on what sells instead of its inherent merits. Austria and Singapore are often com- pared for their size and high standards of living. In the Human Development Index 2013, for instance, Austria and Singapore ranked 18th and 19th, respectively. But that is where the comparison ends. The sense of challenge inherent to the arts, which cinema is part of, is embraced by the Austrians, and while the number of film productions per year is not high, there is no attempt to block the funding of bold experiments. So what do Asians do in reaction to their predicament? Early this year, the Indonesian film, Habibie & Ainun, whacked Iron Man 3 and Fast & Furious 6 to lead the country’s box office with over four million viewers. But what most pundits missed was the fact that the film’s director, Faozan Rizal, is Indonesia’s leading experimental film director. So what happened? Habibie & Ainun, based on the autobiography of Indonesia’s former president, B. J. Habibie, detailing his life and love for his wife, follows all of mainstream cinema’s overused tropes of romance, personal struggle, illness and death, and the eventual sublimation. As Rizal said: “Normally, I do experimental films that don’t go beyond a festival circuit … and because this is a commercial movie, we have to think about the business side and cannot simply regard it as our own piece of art.” Rizal follows a long lineage of filmmakers such as Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman, Jean Cocteau, Isaac Julien, Sally Potter, David Lynch, Gus Van Sant and Luis Buñuel, who worked in both experimental and narrative cinema. However, the one key difference is that Rizal’s Habibie & Ainun is mainstream cinema at its most extreme. None of the above has done anything so nakedly commercial.

10 >11 Introduction Within Rizal’s experimental filmography – Yasujiro’s Journey (2004), Aries – A Poem for Katia (2005), Fugu – A Sushi Tale (2009) – the contrast against Habibie & Ainun is like night and day. Yasujiro’s Journey features a Japanese man walk- ing in a bleak landscape for about 48 minutes, the subtext being a search for memory as the man’s grandfather crashed his plane in Indonesia during World War II en route to Pearl Harbour. In Aries, a couple wanders in another stark land- scape (somewhere in Java) but this time, the desert is contrasted against some pockets of verdant forests. Perhaps intended as a love letter to Rizal’s wife (Katia Engel), the film is a meditation on love. Then, in Fugu, we see an experimental melodrama of a polygamous marriage. When the marriage breaks up, the couples look back with nostalgia and regret. But instead of intense quarrels and shouting matches, the film only features two lines of dialogue. The entire relationship dis- solution is captured through unspoken feelings. While these experimental films were being made, Rizal was a hired hand for com- mercial cinema. His cinematographic eye was quickly seized upon and he ended up shooting 21 feature films for director Hanung Bramantyo, who is one of the country’s top commercial film directors. Today, Rizal still works in the experi- mental medium with Katia Engel, his wife. Their latest installation was held in Bali, Indonesia, in March this year: “How Much Land Does a Man Need” explores nature and humanity through film and photography. The other case study for Asia would be today’s film festival celebrity, the experi- mental director from Thailand, Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Interestingly, while Faozan Rizal went local, Weerasethakul went global. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives won the Cannes’ Golden Palm in 2010, Tropical Malady won a Cannes’ Special Jury Prize in 2004, Blissfully Yours took the Best Film award in the Tokyo Filmex in 2002, while he had his first retrospective at the Singapore International Film Festival in 2001. Of course, Weerasethakul is also a familiar figure in Austria as the Austrian government funded Syndromes and a Century (2006), one of six films for Mozart’s 250th anniversary. Innovation takes on a different character from different cultural perspectives. While innovation seeks to achieve breakthroughs and shatter orthodoxies, that spirit of questioning and openness is framed by one’s living conditions and cul- tural backgrounds. But life’s reverberations create echoes from history. Austrian cinema has had a major worldwide cinematic impact since early film history through its émigré directors such as Fritz Lang, Joseph von Sternberg, Billy Wilder and Otto Preminger, all of whom established reputations in Hollywood. They were the in visible or spiritual wave that inspired Austria to have its largest film production boom in the 1950s. Just as this boom petered off, the important Viennese Actionism burst into the 1960s with the work of four key figures, Günter Brus, Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. They demolished and resisted commodified art and provided experimental film with a nervous burst of new energy. They rejected narrative structure completely, as well as commercial clichés. It was this spirit of questioning and openness, and even of revolt, that permeated Austria’s tendency toward a challenging cinema. Viennese Actionism was a good foil to the experimental film generation, such as Peter Kubelka, Franz Novotny, Valie Export, Otto Muehl, and Peter Weibel, who had begun their work in the late 1950s and the 1960s. Their dedication and constant output confirmed the need for state film funding, which dawned in 1981. Many of today’s avant-garde filmmakers, such as Peter Tscherkassky and Martin Arnold are internationally well known. Even distributors such as sixpack film have built a solid reputation. For example, Peter Tscherkassky’s films have made their way to the Singapore International Film Festival. Austria takes pride in the fact that the country’s experimental filmmaking has impacted on world cinema history. But that support for, and belief in, free think- ing and expression remains a far-off dream for us in Asia. Or as an infamous gonzo journalist once said: “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”

12 >13 Introduction Philip Cheah is a film critic and the editor of BigO, Singapore’s only independent pop culture publication. He is Vice President of NETPAC (Network for the Pro­ motion of Asian Cinema). He is program consultant for the Southeast Asian Film Festival, the AsiaPacificFilms.com website, Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, Shanghai International Film Festival, Hanoi International Film Festival, and the Dubai International Film Festival. He is co-editor of the books And the Moon Dances – The Films of Garin Nugroho, Noel Vera’s Critic After Dark and Ngo Phuong Lan’s Modernity and Nationality in Vietnamese Cinema. In 2004, he was awarded the Korean Cinema Award at the 9th Pusan Inter­natio­ nal Film Festival for his contribution to Korean film. In 2006, he was awarded the Asian Cinema Prize at the 8th Cinemanila International Film Festival for his contri- bution to Asian film. He is the patron of the South East Asian Screen Academy in Makassar, Indonesia. Budget

2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007

Total Budget € 2,055,471 € 2,212,215 € 2,227,713 € 2,110,558 € 2,252,360 € 2,025,300

Development 317,250 233,830 275,998 255,060 237,300 151,600

Production 1,431,092 1,603,710 1,666,575 1,320,923 1,699,900 1,395,000

Fiction films 15 11 6 10 9 7 Documentary films 24 22 27 28 33 30 Avant-garde films 32 32 32 24 28 26

Full-length films 27 21 30 20 26 21 Short films 44 44 35 42 44 42

Total Films 71 65 65 62 70 63

Distribution1 307,129 374,675 300,140 486,575 315,200 478,700

1 Festival screenings, prints, theatrical releases

14 >15 Facts + Figures Festival Screenings

Most Frequent Festival Screenings 2010 – 2013

Number Director Film of festivals Peter Tscherkassky Coming Attractions (2010) 58 Thomas Renoldner Sunny Afternoon (2012) 45 Norbert Pfaffenbichler Conference – Notes on Film 05 (2011) 38 Tizza Covi/Rainer Frimmel The Shine of Day (2012) 36 Harald Hund Apnoe (2011) 32 Michael Palm Low Definition Control – Malfunctions #0 (2011) 27 Paul Wenninger trespass (2012) 26 Siegfried A. Fruhauf Schwere Augen (2011) 26 Catalina Molina Talleres Clandestinos (2010) 25 Josef Dabernig Hypercrisis (2011) 24 Siegfried A. Fruhauf Tranquility (2010) 21 Rentals

Most Frequent Rentals 1995 — 2013 1 Number Director Film of rentals Peter Tscherkassky Outer Space (1999) 278 Virgil Widrich Copy Shop (2001) 255 Virgil Widrich Fast Film (2003) 231 Martin Arnold Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (1998) 201 Peter Tscherkassky Happy End (1996) 169 Peter Tscherkassky Dream Work (2001) 152 Lisl Ponger Passagen (1996) 145 Peter Tscherkassky Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (2005) 137 Kathrin Resetarits Ägypten (1997) 136 Martin Arnold passage à l’acte (1993) 135 Gustav Deutsch Film ist. 7—12 (2002) 119 Gustav Deutsch Film ist. 1—6 (1998) 113 Gustav Deutsch Mariage Blanc (1996) 113 Mara Mattuschka Kugelkopf (1985) 95 Siegfried A. Fruhauf Mirror Mechanics (2005) 85

1 These figures refer exclusively to rental usages which were made through sixpackfilm since the orga- nization of their distribution in 1996. Films by directors such as Martin Arnold, Gustav Deutsch, Lisl Ponger, Peter Tscherkassky, Virgil Widrich and many others are additionally available from the world’s two major experimental film distributors (Canyon Cinema, San Francisco, and Light Cone, Paris). No current figures are available; however, it is known that the films of the artists cited are among the most often requested works from these distributors. Additionally, there are also sub-rental contracts with smaller nationally operating distributors (such as L’Agence du court métrage, Paris; Hamburger Kurzfilmagentur; Apollo Cinema, Los Angeles), which means that the figures in the table must be three to four times higher, at least. A rental usage means: screening at a specific site with a capacity of between 30 and 500 viewers per screening, not counting repetitions and multiple screenings. Peter Tscherkassky, for example, had over 1,000 viewers at two screenings in Paris. This is also true of the gala screenings by Apollo Cinema and the large US cinemas, where Virgil Widrich’s films are often played in an Oscar com- pilation program. A rental usage can also mean playing two to three weeks as part of regular cinema programming.

16 >17 Facts + Figures International Awards

Most International Awards Received 1995 — 2013 Number Director Film of awards Tizza Covi/Rainer Frimmel La Pivellina (2009) 39 Virgil Widrich Copy Shop1 (2001) 35 Virgil Widrich Fast Film (2003) 34 Peter Tscherkassky Outer Space (1999) 18 Martin Arnold Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (1998) 13 Peter Tscherkassky Dream Work (2001) 12 Tizza Covi/Rainer Frimmel The Shine of Day (2012) 12 Severin Fiala/Ulrike Putzer Elephant Skin (2009) 9 Hüseyin Tabak Deine Schönheit ist nichts wert (2012) 9 Tizza Covi/Rainer Frimmel Babooska (2005) 8 Anja Salomonowitz It Happened Just Before (2006) 8 Peter Tscherkassky Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (2005) 8

1 Oscar nomination Awards

The Film Division of the Department for the Arts bestows, upon recommendation of an expert jury, yearly or biennial Outstanding Artist Awards and an Austrian Art Award. The endowment of the Outstanding Artist Award (normally, two are given in different genres), comprises € 7,300 per award. Persons recommended for an Outstanding Artist Award must have produced at least three outstanding and innovative works. The endowment of the Austrian Art Award is in the amount of € 14,600. Persons recom- mended for an Austrian Art Award must have produced at least five innovative works that have been internationally recognized and reviewed.

Outstanding Artist Awards

2007 Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel (documentary) Michaela Schwentner (avant-garde) 2008 Dariusz Krzeczek aka Kowalski (avant-garde) Martina Kudlácek (documentary) 2009 Billy Roisz (avant-garde) Peter Schreiner (documentary) 2010 Michaela Grill (avant-garde) Anja Salomonowitz (documentary) 20 11 Tina Leisch (documentary) Lotte Schreiber (avant-garde) 2012 Katharina Copony (documentary) Michael Palm (avant-garde) 2013 Andreas Horvath (documentary) Gabriele Mathes (avant-garde)

Austrian Art Award

2007 Christine Dollhofer (film) 2008 Peter Roehsler (film) 2009 Götz Spielmann (fiction) 2010 Jessica Hausner (fiction) 20 11 Barbara Reumüller (film) 2012 Barbara Albert (fiction) 2013 Tizza Covi/Rainer Frimmel (fiction)

18 >19 Facts + Figures Thomas Pluch Screenplay Award

This award is dedicated to Thomas Pluch (†1992), screenwriter, author, and co-founder of the ARGE Drehbuch (screenplay working group) – since 2002 the Drehbuchverband Austria (Screenplay Association Austria). The Thomas-Pluch-Drehbuchpreis (initiated in 1992 by two writers) was first awarded in 1993. The goal of the award is to aid screenwriters in achieving the recognition they deserve, and to support talented young writers. The main award is endowed with € 11,000. The two Thomas Pluch promotional awards each comprise € 5,500. International juries select (since 2004 annually) the best screenplays realized as Austrian film productions. The award money is made available from the Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture, and the awards are presented in the context of the Austrian film festival Diagonale in Graz.

2005 Jessica Hausner for the screenplay Hotel

2006 Michael Glawogger for the screenplay Slumming

2007 Stefan Ruzowitzky for the screenplay The Counterfeiters

2008 Ernst Gossner for the screenplay South of Pico

2009 Arash T. Riahi for the screenplay For a Moment, Freedom

2010 Jessica Hausner for the screenplay Lourdes

20 11 Martin Ambrosch for the screenplay Spuren des Bösen

20 12 Markus Schleinzer for the screenplay Michael

20 13 Petra Ladinigg und Umut Da˘g for the screenplay Kuma most wanted > Peter Tscherkassky Coming Attractions

58 International Festival Screenings New York, Toronto, London, Rotterdam, Melbourne ... 4 International Awards Venice (Premio Orizzonti for Best Short Film), Gijón (Best Short Film), Rio de Janeiro (Special Mention), Vienna Independent Shorts Festival (Best Austrian Film)

Tscherkassky’s recent, most beautiful film Coming Attractions creates a complex mosaic of cross- references – both formal, between shots, and historical, between periods and genres. This film demonstrates the extreme textual density found footage can achieve (…) Tscherkassky absolutely creates a new film, but still delivers discoveries drawn from the original footage, relevations about the nature of film and our fascination with it. Tom Gunning

Avant-garde film is attributed with a spiritual affinity to early cinema, also known as the “cinema of attractions”. This notion touches upon the exhibitionistic character of early film, the undaunted show and tell of its creative possibilities, its direct connection to the audience. At the same time, elements of early cinema have been preserved in advertising, such as its frontal address of the camera and bald use of cinematic “tricks”. Coming Attractions seeks to humorously exca- vate the subterranean rhizomes of a mutual genealogy and to celebrate the trinity of early cinema, avant-garde film and advertising. (Peter Tscherkassky)

Austria 2010 No dialogue 35 mm 1:1.37 b&w Dolby SR 25 min Premiere September 2010 Venice Int. Film Festival/Orizzonti Competition

22>23 Most Wanted

Thomas Renoldner Sunny Afternoon

45 International Festival Screenings Melbourne, Bristol, Hong Kong ... 4 International Awards Poznan (Best Music Film), Ljubljana (Jury Special Mention), Krakow (Honorable Mention), Ottawa (Best of touring program)

Given its methods for grabbing attention and poking fun at its own self-conscious style, Sunny Afternoon is a film that might be more at home in an art gallery than at a festival. The advantage of a festival is that this kind of film can be shown alongside more conventionally narrative films, allowing it to reach a larger audience and stir up their ideas about what avant-garde film is or should be. Alison Frank

Sunny Afternoon is the confrontation of an “avant-garde film” with a “pop video” and the analysis of what might be regarded as classical preferences and taboos of both genres. Based on lyrics of the author when he was 25 years old, Andi Haller has arranged the music perfectly illustrating the mentioned basic approaches. Sunny Afternoon uses several animation techniques and combines visual material from different sources.

Austria 2012 English 35 mm 1:1.85 Dolby Digital 7 min Premiere March 2012 Diagonale Graz

24>25 Most Wanted

Norbert Pfaffenbichler Conference – Notes on Film 05

38 International Festival Screenings Venice, Jihlava, Telluride ... 5 International Awards Recife (Best Sound), Madrid – Semana del Cine Experimental (Second Prize of the Jury), Seoul EXIS (Fuji Award, International Competition), Zagreb – 25fps (Grand Prix), Belgrade (Relevant Film)

Conference by Norbert Pfaffenbichler functions as something of a farce, with its rhyming montage displaying the various fictional film personages of Adolf Hitler. The film bears witness to the idea that evil has many faces and is easily banalized. Greg de Cuir

This grotesque found footage film assembles close-ups of 65 actors playing Adolf Hitler in movies from 1940 until today, combined in shots and countershots. No other 20th century historical figure has been portrayed in films more often and by more actors than Adolf Hitler. A bizarre and uncanny identity parade, Conference presents Adolf Hitler as an undead who is impersonated by an alarming number of revenants.

Austria 2011 Digi Beta/FAZ 35 mm b&w stereo 8 min Premiere September 2011 Venice Int. Film Festival/Orizzonti Competition

26>27 Most Wanted

Tizza Covi|Rainer Frimmel The Shine of Day

36 International Festival Screenings Locarno, Berlin, New York ... 12 International Awards Locarno (Best Actor: Walter Saabel), Saarbrücken (Max Ophüls Preis), Andrei Tarkovsky “Zerkalo” International Film Festival (Prize of the Russian Guild of Film Critics)

The Shine of Day sheds light on major societal questions in poetic and often tragicomic ways: freedom, identity, self-discovery and self- presentation. And, in particular, our ability to actively shape all these, depending on the childhood we had or the country we are from. In its simplicity a particularly courageous film. Jury Statement SAARBRÜCKEN

Philipp Hochmair is a young and successful actor working for the most important theaters in Vienna and Hamburg. He spends his time learning new texts, rehears- ing and performing, gradually losing touch with everyday reality. But when Philipp meets Walter, with whom he starts an ambiguous friendship, and has to face his neighbor Victor’s destiny, he is reminded that life is more than a stage.

Austria 2012 German (Eng sub) S-16 mm/Blow up DCP Dolby SR 90 min Premiere August 2012 Int. Film Festival Locarno

28>29 Most Wanted

Harald Hund Apnoe

32 International Festival Screenings Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Nashville …

A family’s day-to-day life – average, one might even say boring. But there’s a catch: The Bergers live underwater. Breakfast alone becomes a sluggish tour de force, and communication is reduced to the bare essentials. In the end, it is not much different from life above water. Apnoe is a witty commentary on modern society. DIAGONALE GRAZ

Apnœa is a term for suspension of external breathing. Apneists in this context are people who can hold their breath for a long time. Apnoe is a continuation of a series about living spaces, to which Mouse Palace, Tomatoheads and Dropping Furniture belong. The series represents human existence under absurd conditions.

Austria 2011 HD 16:9 stereo 10 min Premiere January 2012 Int. Film Festival Rotterdam

30>31 Most Wanted

Michael Palm Low Definition Control – Malfunctions #0

27 International Festival Screenings Mar del Plata, Nyon, Seoul … 1 International Award Documenta Madrid (Second Prize, Original Full-Length Film)

Low Definition Control is a meaty philosophical encounter, something which discusses our position in an observed world with an honest line of enquiry, searching for the root of our reclusiveness since the turn of the millennium. Of course, these discussions are necessary in film, experimenting with cinema’s position in documenting our anxieties and conditioning, and at the same time, exploring how we can address these issues. Andrew Latimer

Low Definition Control is an experimental science fiction documentary about the precarious construction of truth and knowledge via imaging systems used in crimi- nology, medicine and the natural sciences. Key concepts like surveillance and con- trol, normality and deviation become touchstones for a filmic reflection upon the significance of visual apparatuses and the world-view provided by their conception of reality, change and life.

Austria 2011 German (Eng sub) 35 mm CinemaScope 1:2.35 color/b&w Dolby Digital 95 min Premiere October 2011 Viennale – Vienna Int. Film Festival

32>33 Most Wanted

Paul Wenninger trespass

26 International Festival Screenings Edinburgh, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Tampere … 3 International Awards Annecy (Distinction for a First Film), Birmingham (Flatpack WTF Award), Vienna One Day Animation Festival (Jury Special Mention, Audience Award)

This real-animation is a technically impressive, varied, and precise tour de force. A consistent element throughout is a type of avatar of the director, a character created from real images, whom the film sends on a world journey, of sorts, within his own four walls. A wild process of transgression can begin. Christian Höller

The camera, in a single continuous shot, moves through a great variety of land- scapes and interiors, while remaining the steady observer and companion of the male character whose body is the film’s one constant feature and a monad of sorts. The man, though he moves outside these ever-changing, unstable spaces and their axes of time, is at the same time inside and yet somehow separated or liberated from them.

Austria 2012 No dialogue HD 1:1.85 5.1 mix 11 min Premiere October 2012 Viennale – Vienna Int. Film Festival

34>35 Most Wanted

Siegfried A. Fruhauf Schwere Augen

26 International Festival Screenings Montreal, London, Seoul …

Schwere Augen (Heavy Eyes) is a series of double negative images blended in and out of static background, as though multiple prophetic faces appeared through your television screen at four o’clock in the morning. Fruhauf’s film is part flicker and part editing effect, utilizing its soundtrack – like its images – as a lead pipe to its casualty. It’s honest because it knows it’s an assault on the senses and doesn’t back down. Ian Hubbard

Austria 2011 No dialogue 35 mm 1:1.85 b&w Dolby SR 10 min Premiere October 2011 Viennale – Vienna Int. Film Festival

Tranquility 21 International Festival Screenings Seattle, New York, Vilnius … 1 International Award Madrid – Semana del Cine Experimental (Best Film Editing)

Tranquility could be seen as a vacation daydream, the record of a fantasy in spin, the work of a consciousness unbound by limits, realized in a state of complete relaxation like that pre- sumably enjoyed by the woman on the beach. The transitions between images are realized in all the ways consciousness uses to work with meaning: linguistically, visually, and acoustically. Bert Rebhandl

Austria 2010 No dialogue 35 mm 1:1.66 Dolby SR 7 min Premiere October 2010 New York Film Festival/Views from the Avant-Garde

36>37 Most Wanted

Catalina Molina Talleres Clandestinos

25 International Festival Screenings Cork, Hof, Vila do Conde … 6 International Awards Warsaw Grand Off (Best Script), Salzburg Film:Riss (Best Fiction Film), Vila do Conde (EFA Award), Graz Diagonale (Special Mention Youth Jury)

Young Bolivian Juana gets a job as a seamstress in neighboring Argentina, forcing her to leave her husband and baby boy. After arriving in Buenos Aires, the reputed factory turns out to be a prison. Textile goods for luxury brands are produced under inhumane conditions: long working days, sexual abuse and no permission to leave the factory. After a series of fatal incidents, she attempts an escape by any means possible.

Austria 2010 Spanish (Ger/Eng sub) HD/Digi Beta 1:1.77 Dolby Stereo 40 min Premiere March 2012 Diagonale Graz

38>39 Most Wanted

Josef Dabernig Hypercrisis

24 International Festival Screenings Mar del Plata, Montreal, New York …

As the world remains suspended in a waiting game with unpredictable outcome, Dabernig presents a clever, concise examination of creative block and cultural entropy. Nomination Statement VENICE

A former retreat for Soviet cinematographers in the South Caucasus has been repurposed to accommodate writers. But that does not seem to work very well either. At present, Boris Martov from Moscow, a talent from the promising times of the Perestroika, is its only resident. Amidst the faded glory of the institution for privileged artists, the poet tries to overcome his continuing creative crisis.

Austria 2011 No dialogue 16 mm/Blow up 35 mm 1:1.85 Stereo SR 17 min Premiere September 2011 Venice Int. Film Festival

40>41 Most Wanted

films > fiction > 46>47 Fiction Fata Morgana Peter Schreiner

Austria Peter Schreiner undertakes a psychoanalytic quest into German (Eng sub) human existence, in what is a cross between Freud HD 16:9 DCP and Sartre, magical and minimalist. Two lovers, marked b&w mono 140 min by life, expose their deepest emotions, looking for the right words for their inner demons. It all comes down to Realisation reason and feeling. And to the impossibility of under- Peter Schreiner standing yourself, let alone someone else. Schreiner’s Key Cast magnum opus is spiritualizing and stimulating. Majestic Giuliana Pachner Christian Schmidt landscape shots fade into close-ups of faces, meticu- Awad Elkish lously examined by the camera. (Chinlin Hsieh)

Producer Peter Schreiner *1957 Vienna Austria Peter Schreiner Films (selection) Totó (2009 d) Bellavista (2006 d) I Cimbri Production (1991 d) Peter Schreiner Filmproduktion echt.zeit.film

Premiere January 2013 Int. Film Festival Rotterdam

Sales sixpackfilm Gehen am Strand Caspar Pfaundler

Austria Anja is holing up in her apartment to complete her German Master’s thesis. But as hard as she tries, she fails 2K 1:1.85 DCP to make headway. This impasse seems to be replicated Dolby Digital 112 min in Anja’s relationship with her boyfriend, Paul. When her grandmother dies in Holland and the family gathers Screenplay at the crematorium, she flees to the seaside. In Walking Caspar Pfaundler on the Beach, her experience of isolation is intense: Key Cast Anja starts to perceive herself differently. Elisabeth Umlauft Karl Fischer Claudia Martini Caspar Pfaundler *1959 Innsbruck Austria Camera Films (selection) Schottentor (2009 f) Lost and Found (2001 f) Peter Roehsler Editor Caspar Pfaundler

Producer Peter Roehsler Production nanookfilm

Premiere March 2013 Diagonale Graz

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48>49 Fiction My Blind Heart Peter Brunner

Austria Kurt, who suffers from an incurable disease and is German (Eng sub) almost blind, lives with his hyper-present mother. HD 16:9 DCP He resorts to drastic means to take his life in his own b&w Dolby Digital 92 min hands and goes on a journey that blurs the boundar- ies between perpetrator and victim. In the streets Kurt Screenplay/Editor meets Conny, a 13-year-old runaway. She readily par- Peter Brunner ticipates in Kurt’s protest against his body, not knowing Key Cast what moves him or into which abyss his journey is lead- Christos Haas Jana McKinnon ing. How much guilt can one individual endure? Susanne Lothar Camera Peter Brunner *1983 Vienna Austria Franz Dude Films (selection) Milchzähne (2013 short f) Wohngegenstand (2008 short d) Sickness of the Youth (co-director 2007 f) Producers Therese Seemann Klara von Veegh Production Cataract Vision

Premiere March 2013 Diagonale Graz

Contact Cataract Vision Soldate Jeannette Daniel Hoesl

Austria Fanni has had enough of money and leaves to buy a German (Eng sub) tent. Anna has had enough of pigs and leaves the DCP 1:2.35 farmer – one needle in the haystack. In the new game, Dolby SR 80 min Fanni rolls the dice while Anna does not think twice – Key Cast she knocks down all the pins. Together they raise their Johanna Orsini- voices and shape one mutual tune. Differences attract Rosenberg each other, and cheerfully they move on – together on Christina Reichsthaler their distinct journeys, where their dreams are set – Josef Kleindienst Camera towards a new found liberty. Gerald Kerkletz Editor Daniel Hoesl *1982 St. Pölten Austria Natalie Schwager Films (selection) The Madness of the Day (2011 short f) Lektion von alltäglichem Pathos (2006 short f) Lektion in Producer Tango (2004 short f) Katharina Posch Daniel Hoesl Gerald Kerkletz Production A European Film Conspiracy

Premiere January 2013 Sundance Film Festival

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50>51 Fiction Talea Katharina Mückstein

Austria 14-year-old Jasmin (Sophie Stockinger) is living with a German (Eng sub) foster family when her mother, Eva (Nina Proll), gets 4K 1:2.35 DCP out of prison on parole. Jasmin desperately wants to Dolby Stereo 75 min meet her mother. She persuades Eva to take her to the village where Eva’s grandparents used to live. During Screenplay Selina Gnos the trip they start building a relationship: as girlfriends, Katharina Mückstein as mother and daughter, and as two persons who take Key Cast a hesitant look into the past in order to arrive in the Sophie Stockinger Nina Proll present. Philipp Hochmaier Camera Katharina Mückstein *1982 Vienna Austria Michael Schindegger Films (selection) Die Vereinigung (2008 short f) Editor Das Erbe (2006 short d) Natalie Schwager

Producers Flavio Marchetti Katharina Mückstein Michael Schindegger Natalie Schwager Production La Banda Film

Premiere January 2013 Saarbrücken Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis

Contact La Banda Film documentary > Die 727 Tage ohne Karamo Anja Salomonowitz

Austria Karamo is the name of a man who was deported from German (Eng sub) Austria 727 days ago. Since then, his wife and three HD 1:2.35 DCP children have been living in the family’s nice apartment Dolby Stereo 80 min on their own. The film is about binational couples and their confrontation with immigration law: 21 couples Concept were filmed, each adding another episode to the story, Anja Salomonowitz as if passing on the relay. Together they tell a story, the Camera story of the method behind the madness of bureau- Martin Putz Editor cracy. It thus creates a documentary mosaic, a love Petra Zöpnek film against the law.

Producers Anja Salomonowitz *1976 Vienna Austria Alexander Dumreicher- Films (selection) Spanien (2012 f) It Happened Just Before Ivanceanu (2006 d) Das wirst du nie verstehen (2003 d) Bady Minck Production Amour Fou Filmproduktion

Premiere February 2013 Berlinale Int. Film Festival Berlin

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54>55 Documentary And There Was Fire in the Center of the Earth Bernhard Hetzenauer

Austria Vera Kohn, a Jewish woman of German descent born German/Spanish in Prague in 1912, fled from Czechoslovakia to Latin (Span/Ger/Eng sub) America in 1939, where she built a new life for herself, HD 16:9 DCP color/b&w first as a stage actress in Quito, Ecuador. The trauma Dolby SR of losing home has never left her. A severe mental 78 min breakdown changed her life. The documentary essay tells the story of various encounters of the filmmaker, Concept whose Austrian grandfather was an SS soldier, and the Bernhard Hetzenauer Camera remarkable 98-year-old psychologist and Zen teacher. Diego Arteaga Francois Laso Bernhard Hetzenauer *1981 Innsbruck Austria Bernhard Hetzenauer Films (selection) Lo que quedó guardado – Was unaus ge- Darío Aguirre sprochen blieb (2010 short d) Wann habe ich aufgehört, Diego Falconí Dir meine Träume zu erzählen? (2007 short d) Todos nos Maria Rank hacemos ilusiones – Wir alle haben Illusionen (2007 d) Editors Amparo Mejías Bernhard Hetzenauer

Producer Bernhard Hetzenauer

Premiere May 2013 EDOC Quito Ecuador

Contact Bernhard Hetzenauer Debts Inc. Eva Eckert

Austria “Good morning! May we drop in for a moment?” German (Eng sub) Debts Inc. takes a look at occupational groups that live HD 16:9 DCP on those who have difficulties servicing their debts: the stereo 75 min bailiffs, collection agencies, private investigators, debt Concept advisers, auctioneers. It follows debtors and collection Eva Eckert agents playing tag and it watches those who, as part Camera of their jobs, convert debts into loans, payment plans, Helmut Wimmer interest payments, lease-purchase agreements and Editors Julia Drack evictions. Debts Inc. is a film about demolition zones Joana Scrinzi within the economic system, and about the skilful man- agement of new poverty. Producers Michael Kitzberger Eva Eckert *1969 Vienna Austria Nikolaus Geyrhalter Films (selection) Eisenwurzen (2008 d) Er/Ich (2006 short d) Markus Glaser Mask (2005 short d) Wolfgang Widerhofer Production Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion

Premiere March 2013 Diagonale Graz

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56>57 Documentary Earth’s Golden Playground Andreas Horvath

Austria Since the first Gold Rush in the late 1890s, the Yukon English (Ger/Fr sub) with its legendary Klondike gold fields has been a HD 16:9 DCP remote land shrouded in mystery. In times of economic stereo 106 min instability the high price of gold makes the search for Realisation the precious metal all the more attractive. Individual Andreas Horvath miners compete in this modern-day gold rush tale about the quest for the legendary “mother lode”: the Premiere source which – despite decades of exploitation – is still August 2013 Int. Film Festival believed to lie hidden underground. Locarno Andreas Horvath *1968 Salzburg Austria Contact Films (selection) Postcard from Somova, Romania Andreas Horvath (2011 short d) Arab Attraction (co-director 2010 d) This ain’t no Heartland (2004 d) Elektro Moskva Dominik Spritzendorfer, Elena Tikhonova

Austria What does Russia sound like? The fabled electronic Russian (Ger/Eng sub) synthesizers from the Soviet era have been cult instru- HD 16:9 DCP ments since the collapse of Communism, due to their stereo 89 min unmistakable sound and unreliable operation. They tell Concept innumerable curious stories about Lenin’s dream of Dominik Spritzendorfer electrifying Russia, the myth of progress, musicians, Elena Tikhonova inventors, bohemians and collectors of sounds whose Camera boundless creativity has survived, even in a period of Dominik Spritzendorfer Editor post-Soviet reality. Michael Palm Dominik Spritzendorfer *1974 Zurich Switzerland Producer Films (selection) Romski Bal (co-director 2006 d) Dominik Spritzendorfer Diana Stoynova Elena Tikhonova *1977 Obninsk Russia Petra Popovic Films (selection) Metropolis reloaded (2006 a-g) Production Dobriy Vecher, Constructor (2002 a-g) Rotor Film

Premiere March 2013 Diagonale Graz

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58>59 Documentary Fair Wind – Notes of a Traveller Bernadette Weigel

Austria A poetic, meditative documentary born from the idea German/English/French of “falling in love with the world at first sight”. Alone S-8 mm DCP and armed with her 8 mm camera, Weigel sets off by Dolby Stereo 82 min boat from Vienna, traveling East with no fixed destina- Concept/Text/Camera tion in mind. Her journey takes her downstream on the Bernadette Weigel Danube to Bulgaria, then onward by train, bus, ferry Editor and minibus through Romania, Ukraine, Georgia, Azer- Alexandra Schneider baijan and Kazakhstan. Images, sounds, associations, Producer atmospheres – they dance together to tell stories. It is Florian Brüning an invitation to the audience to embark on journeys of their own. Premiere January 2013 Bernadette Weigel *1977 Vienna Austria Int. Film Festival Films (selection) Hildegard Absalon – Aus dem Dunkel Rotterdam der Erinnerung (2012 short d) Marie (2009 short f) Wiens Kultursöldner (2008 short d) Sales sixpackfilm Fiori di Strada – Nicht wir sind die Verrückten! Olga Pohankova

Austria The film is a reflection on Carlo Ginzburg’s book, “I Italian/Spanish Benandanti”, which describes the medieval folk tradi- (Ger sub) tion of “benandanti” (“good walkers”), who believed DV/Digi Beta 16:9 stereo 85 min they had special powers to fight witches, ogres and demons threatening harvests and children. Who are Concept the “benandanti” of today and who are the witches and Olga Pohankova ogres of our times? Can these assigned roles be put Lisa Neumann into question? Fiori di Strada (“Flowers of the Streets”) Camera Olga Pohankova analyses three stories, trying to recover the sense of Editors truth and the truth of the sense, starting from the rela- Olga Pohankova tions between individuals and the respect that every Sabine Maier statement of the human race deserves.

Producers Olga Pohankova *1979 Bratislava Slovakia Olga Pohankova Films (selection) Ciao Vettor (2012 a-g) Altre Plasticita (2008 Diego Fiori d) Orbis Pictus (2004 a-g) Stefanie Sauer

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60>61 Documentary Libya Hurra Fritz Ofner

Austria A road trip through Libya during the last weeks of the Arabic (Eng sub) uprising against Muammar al-Gaddafi’s regime. Libya HD 16:9 DCP Hurra (“Free Libya”) documents a collective mood Dolby Stereo 73 min characterizing people in one particular place in a Realisation narrow time window. Without losing itself in facts and Fritz Ofner statements, the film outlines the realities of life in long Sound sequence shots filmed during an armed revolution that Peter Kutin usually – even in a country in the focus of media Producer attention – remains completely hidden. At the end, the Fritz Ofner filmmaker stands in front of Gaddafi’s former palace. Production The revolution is over and the time window has closed. Friedrich Ofner Filmproduktion Fritz Ofner *1977 Friesach Austria Films Beirut Blend (2012 short d) Evolution of Violence Premiere (2011 d) From Baghdad to Dallas (2010 short d) April 2012 Crossing Europe Linz

Contact Friedrich Ofner Filmproduktion Mara Mattuschka_Different Faces of an Anti-Diva Elisabeth Maria Klocker

Austria The Viennese magazine Falter called Mara Mattuschka German (Eng sub) a “Diva of the 90s”. Due to her unique film style as well DV/Digi Beta 4:3 DCP as her appearance on stage, she is well known to the color/b&w stereo 90 min interested audience. Her work has been awarded many prizes. However, not everyone is aware of the many Concept faces of this “diva” who is somehow different and, at Elisabeth M. Klocker the same time, is a producer and director of experi- Camera mental films, painter, actress, singer, teacher, philoso- Elisabeth M. Klocker Florian Benzer pher, and mother of two sons. Bernadette Dewald Editors Elisabeth Maria Klocker *1967 Bregenz Austria Bernadette Dewald Films (selection) Die Frau, die Arbeit, die Kunst und das Geld Elisabeth M. Klocker (2007 d) Ragnar (2005 d)

Premiere October 2013 Viennale Vienna Int. Film Festival

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62>63 Documentary Omsch Edgar Honetschläger

Austria He is 25, she is 82 when he moves in next door to her. German (Eng sub) For 20 years, they look after each other. To him, she is HD 16:9 DCP an inexhaustible oracle. And he, the traveler, brings the stereo 83 min wide world into her small kitchen. With irony and Vien- Concept/Editors nese humor the two bridge the age gap between them Edgar Honetschläger as Omsch (“Granny”), as he calls her, turns George Ber- Stefan Fauland nard Shaw’s saying of “Youth is wasted on the young” Camera into: “Old age would become the young. They could Edgar Honetschläger Daniel Hollerweger make better use of it.” Hisaki Sanbongi Edgar Honetschläger *1967 Vienna Austria Producers Films (selection) Aun – the beginning and the end of all things Yukika Kudo (2011 f) Sugar&Ice (2008 short f) chickensuit (2005 a-g) Edgar Honetschläger Production Edoko Institute Film Production

Premiere April 2013 Nyon Visions du Réel

Contact Edoko Institute Film Production Robert Tarantino – A Rebel Without a Crew Houchang Allahyari

Austria A humorous film on the life and work of the jobless German/English young filmmaker Robert Tarantino, who is trying to (Ger sub) make a film. A “rebel without a crew” – without budget, HD 16:9 stereo 77 min but with dedicated young actors – he shoots a horror trash movie in which a psychopathic mass murderer Concept carves a bloody trail through Vienna. Houchang Allahyari Camera/Editor Houchang Allahyari *1941 Tehran Iran Daniel Kundi Films (selection) Das persiche Krokodil (2012 short d) Die verrückte Welt der Ute Bock (2010 f) Bock for President Producer (2009 d) Houchang Allahyari Production allahyari filmproduktion

Premiere March 2013 Diagonale Graz

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64>65 Documentary Roque Dalton, let’s shoot the night! Tina Leisch

Austria Roque Dalton, let’s shoot the night! explores the social Spanish (Eng/Ger sub) impact of literature and poetry. Roque Dalton (1935– HD/Digi Beta 16:9 1975) is the most important poet of El Salvador. His Dolby Digital 85 min life is an adventure story, his poetry an exciting shower of sparks in the realm between political utopia and Concept sensuality, between revolutionary beliefs and the lust Tina Leisch for heresy and will serve as a magnifying glass which Erich Hackl enables us to observe contemporary political conflicts Camera Gerald Kerkletz with exceptional clarity. Editor Karina Ressler Tina Leisch * Munich Germany Films (selection) Dagegen muss ich etwas tun (2009 d) Producer Gangster Girls (2008 d) riefenstahlremix (2003 short d) Ursula Wolschlager Production Witcraft Szenario Verein kinoki

Premiere May 2013 Santa Tecla, El Salvador

Contact Tina Leisch Serçavan – Above My Eyes Tina Leisch, Ali Can

Austria For more than 30 years, Kurdish men and women German/Kurmançi/ have been fighting for civil rights in Turkey. Today their Turkish/French movement is the most feminist, most intercultural and (Ger/Kurmançi/Turk/ Fr sub) most multi-religious movement in the Middle East. HD Cam/Digi Beta 16:9 Not only facing harsh repression by the Turkish state, Dolby Stereo 75 min the Kurdish movement is also persecuted in many EU countries. We meet Kurdish politicians in exile in Concept Europe and travel to Turkey on their behalf: the portrait Tina Leisch Ali Can of an uprising. Camera Tina Leisch Ali Can *1973 Dersim Turkey Piran Baydemir Editor Tina Leisch * Munich Germany Karina Ressler Films (selection) Dagegen muss ich etwas tun (2009 d) Gangster Girls (2008 d) riefenstahlremix (2003 short d) Producer Tina Leisch Production kinoki

Premiere June 2013 Vienna

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66>67 Documentary Those who go Those who stay Ruth Beckermann

Austria Rain on a window pane, a fire truck, a tomcat with innu- German/Italian/Hebrew/ merable offspring: it is an intentionally unintentional French (Eng sub) gaze that allows for chance encounters, for stories DCP 16:9 Dolby Digital 75 min and memories – leads that Ruth Beckermann follows across Europe and the Mediterranean. Concept Nigerian asylum seekers in Sicily, an Arab musician in Ruth Beckermann Galilee, nationalists drunk on beer in Vienna, the Capi- Camera toline Wolf, and three veiled young women trying for Johannes Hammel Ruth Beckermann minutes to cross a busy road in Alexandria. Threads, Peter Roehsler cloth and textiles pop up like book marks in a fabric of Editors movement, of traveling or seeking refuge. Dieter Pichler Those who go Those who stay is a story of being on the Ruth Beckermann move, in the world and one’s own life. Producer Ruth Beckermann Ruth Beckermann *1952 Vienna Austria Production Films (selection) American Passages (2011 d) Zorros Bar Ruth Beckermann Mizwa (2006 d) Jenseits des Krieges (1996 d) Filmproduktion

Premiere October 2013 Viennale Vienna Int. Film Festival

Contact Ruth Beckermann Filmproduktion Treibstoff Birgit Bergmann, Stefanie Franz Oliver Werani

Austria For a year, the documentary accompanies the vehicle German (Eng sub) camp community Treibstoff (Fuel), on their search for HD Blu-ray 1:1.77 a home. The idea of vehicle sites is new to Austria. We stereo 73 min witness the community’s struggle to obtain a political Concept/Camera solution for legalized sites. Community members talk Stefanie Franz about their hopes, motivations and anger while they Editors move on, in an odyssey, as it were, from wasteland site Birgit Bergmann to wasteland site. The land owners keep trotting out the Stefanie Franz Oliver Werani same excuse: Something is being built here! With every eviction, tensions rise. Producers Birgit Bergmann Birgit Bergmann *1985 Villach Austria Oliver Werani Films (selection) Traumberuf Straßenbahnfahrer (2008 short d)

Premiere Stefanie Franz *1986 Graz Austria December 2012 Vienna Films (selection) möchtegern (2008 short f) This Human World Festival Oliver Werani *1968 Vienna Austria Films (selection) Plakatieren verboten (2012 short d) Contact Oliver Werani

68>69 Documentary Urban Nomads Gregor Buchhaus

Austria Urban Nomads is a documentary about the life of street German/English/Czech performers, or buskers. It portrays three protagonists (Ger/Eng sub) who provide deep insight into their particular way of HD/Digi Beta 16:9 stereo 82 min life and making a living, presenting an extreme tension between personal freedom and existential insecurity. Concept/Camera We accompany these urban nomads as they travel far Gregor Buchhaus and wide across Europe. Paulus Jakob Editor Gregor Buchhaus *1979 Vienna Austria Birgit Obkircher

Producers Gregor Buchhaus Paulus Jakob Production Brothervillage Films

Premiere August 2012 Jecheon Int. Film & Music Festival Korea

Contact Gregor Buchhaus avant-garde > A Masque of Madness – Notes on Film 06-B Monologue 02 Norbert Pfaffenbichler

Austria A Masque of Madness shows Boris Karloff in about 170 English (Ger sub) different roles. From the beginnings of his career in Digi Beta the silent era until his death in 1969, the English-born Dolby Stereo color/b&w actor starred in a vast spectrum of films, ranging from 80 min master pieces of film history to cheap horror flicks. Footage from all extant films has been remounted non- Realisation chronologically and in parallel, compressing a life-long Norbert Pfaffenbichler acting career into a few minutes. The actor encounters Key Cast no one but himself, at different ages, in different roles Boris Karloff and costumes. Sound Christof Amann Norbert Pfaffenbichler *1967 Steyr Austria Films (selection) Conference – Notes on Film 05 (2011 a-g) Premiere Intermezzo – Notes on Film 04 (2011 a-g) Mosaik Mécanique August 2013 – Notes on Film 03 (2007 a-g) Int. Film Festival Locarno

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72>73 Avant-garde Perfect Garden Mara Mattuschka, Chris Haring

Austria Four women and a man of different nationalities have English occupied a disused bordello – “Perfect Garden”. They DV/Digi Beta live and work there on their own, on a quest for lust stereo 80 min and sensual pleasure, taking on self-chosen roles in Screenplay pursuit of new self-definitions in the interaction with Mara Mattuschka each other and the bar’s few remaining punters. While Liquid Loft – Chris Haring a mafia boss tries to take over of the place, the feral woman overpowers the mobster’s chauffeur outside. Key Cast Stephanie Cumming A dream-like, hypnotic film in which reality and utopia Anna Nowak blur. Camera Sepp Nermuth Mara Mattuschka *1959 Sofia Bulgaria Editor Chris Haring *1968 Schattendorf Austria Mara Mattuschka Films (selection) Burning Palace (2009 a-g) Running Sushi (2008 a-g) Part Time Heroes (2007 a-g) Production minus film – Mara Mattuschka Liquid Loft – Chris Haring Nked – David Zuderstorfer Christoph Parzer

Premiere March 2013 Diagonale Graz

Sales sixpackfilm fiction short > 76>77 Fiction Short Albatrosse Das ist es, was immer mit den Mike Kren Menschen los und mit den Tieren nicht los ist. Jan & Anna Groos

As an adult, Leosˇ remembers his childhood A young woman has gone missing. Parents, in 1970s Communist Czechoslovakia, his friends, a pastor and a policeman tell her escape to Austria and his first impressions story. But the jigsaw pieces do not seem of his new home as well as the things and to fit together and fail to paint a coherent people he had to leave behind. A film about picture of the young woman. Little by little, the lightness and fleetingness of childhood the missing woman’s thread of identities memories and the weight they can have for unravels. Was her model of life an avant- a person’s entire life. garde attempt to break the boundaries of identity or just a reckless ego trip? Mike Kren *1981 Vienna Austria Films (selection) The Back Room (co-director Anna Groos *1979 Frankfurt/Main Germany 2011 short f) Zoot Woman – Memory (co-director Jan Groos *1981 Frankfurt/Main Germany 2009 a-g) Zoot Woman – We Won’t Break (co- director 2007 a-g) Austria German (Eng sub) Austria Digi Beta 16:9 DCP German stereo 45 min 35 mm CinemaScope 1:2.35 Dolby SR 13 min Screenplay Anna Groos, Jan Groos Key Cast Andreas Patton Screenplay Clara Trischler Andrea Clausen Camera Xiaosu Han Camera José Lorenzo Wasner Andreas Thalhammer Editor Gernot Grassl Editor Bettina Enigl Premiere January 2013 Saarbrücken Producer Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis Roberto Gruber Contact Premiere May 2013 Vienna Jan Groos Cinema Next

Contact Mike Kren Marzenka Pfitscher Florian Kofler Albert Meisl Julia Gutweniger

Marek has failed at university and he has Pfitscher is a film set between two worlds. failed in building a life of his own. 28 years That of a valley and that of the global old, he has retreated to his old bedroom context, the media and the longings of the at his mother’s house. Yet when his young people who inhabit these worlds. At the cousin, Marzenka, arrives from Poland in center of the story is Patrik, a ten-year-old order to study in Vienna, his refuge is at boy who one summer’s day realizes he can risk. no longer cope with the world he lives in. In his own special way he goes in search of a Albert Meisl *1978 Munich Germany way out. Films (selection) Sickness of the Youth (co-director 2007 f) Julia Gutweniger *1986 Merano Italy Austria Florian Kofler *1988 Merano Italy German/Polish (Ger sub) Films (selection) Fi Johr fi Johr (2011 short d) 16 mm CinemaScope 1:2.35 August/September (2010 short f) Dolby Digital 25 min Austria/Italy Screenplay Albert Meisl German dialect (Ger/It/Eng sub) Key Cast Thomas Prazak HD 16:9 Kaja Dymnicki, Grazyna Dylag stereo 40 min Camera Marion Priglinger Editor Stefan Stabenow Screenplay Florian Kofler, Julia Gutweniger Thomas Wider Zeno von Braitenberg Key Cast Philipp Scherer Producer Thomas Larch, Valeria Gufler Esther Hassfurther Camera Julia Gutweniger Editor Florian Kofler Premiere June 2013 Salzburg Cinema Next Producers Florian Kofler Julia Gutweniger Contact Produktion Production Villa Mondeo Esther Hassfurther Premiere April 2013 Crossing Europe Linz

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78>79 Fiction Short VOID Stefan Lukacs

Following a failed deportation, three police officers take a momentous decision: they abduct the African deportee, torture him and resolve to cover up their crime by murder. VOID is the protocol of a spiral of violence – based on the true story of Gam- bian Bakary J.

Stefan Lukacs *1982 Vienna Austria Films (selection) Zombiefication (2010 short f) I want YOU! (2009 short d) Afrika 11 (2008 short d)

Austria German/English (Eng sub) HD CinemaScope 1:2.35 Dolby Digital 30 min

Screenplay Stefan Lukacs Key Cast Laurence Rupp Anton Noori, David Wurawa Camera Thomas Payr Editor Georg Eggenfellner

Producers Georg Eggenfellner Stefan Lukacs Production NonPlus Filmproduktion

Premiere December 2012 Vienna This Human World Festival

Contact NonPlus Filmproduktion documentary short > 82>83 Documentary Short I can’t cry much louder than If that’s so, then I’m a this Robert Cambrinus murderer Walter Manoschek

The media and the internet swamp us with On March 29th, 1945, three members of the images of events from all corners of the Waffen-SS shot and killed at least 57 Jew- world – but personal experiences are not ish slave laborers in the village of Deutsch connected with them. We are at once inter- Schützen in Austria. Among the perpetrators connected and disconnected. We only have was Adolf Storms. 63 years after the mas- ourselves as starting and end points in this sacre, I conducted a 15-hour interview with reflection. him. In talking to abettors and survivors of the massacre, the events are reconstructed. Robert Cambrinus *1965 Vienna Austria Adolf Storms died in 2010, shortly before Films (selection) Home Video (2011 short f) the trial against him was opened. Commentary (2009 short f) Illegal (2006 short f)

Austria Walter Manoschek *1957 Vienna Austria English (Ger sub) Digi Beta 16:9 Austria stereo 11 min German (Eng sub) Digi Beta 16:9 Concept stereo 68 min Robert Cambrinus Editor Concept Nathan Cubitt Walter Manoschek Camera Producer Stephan Mussil Robert Stokvis Rainer Komers Production Daniel Binder-Lichtenstein Concept Films Editor Walter Manoschek Premiere March 2013 Diagonale Graz Producer Walter Manoschek Sales sixpackfilm Premiere October 2012 Viennale Vienna Int. Film Festival

Contact Walter Manoschek In the Twinkling of an Eye (JC{639}) Othmar Schmiderer Sabine Groschup Angela Summereder Philosophical positions on the question of what Sabine Groschup’s experimental film about differentiates human beings and animals consti- John Cage’s ORGAN2/ASLSP, a work to be tute the starting point for a cinematic discourse played “as slowly as possible”, documents in which goats serve both as a projection surface the widely acclaimed 639-year performance and as “actors”. Bodo Hell, literary author and in Halberstadt, Germany, in striking images herdsman, draws comparisons between the field and superb sound design. In homage to Cage, of the text and the field of pasture, and follows Groschup leaves the course of her film to in the tracks of the enigmatic goats in their open chance. Others do random “scene-drawings” space of the “never nowhere without not”. A par- of her 89 established scenes (= 89 tones in able on the relationship between human beings the composition for organ) to determine the and animals, subject and object, thinking and life. (respective) final cuts.

Othmar Schmiderer *1954 Lofer Austria Sabine Groschup *1959 Innsbruck Austria Films (selection) The Fabric of Home (2012 d) Films (selection) Gugug (2006 a-g) Schöner Back to Africa (2008 d) Wohnen (2005 a-g) Ghosts – Nachrichten von Wem (2000 a-g) Angela Summereder *Ort/Innkreis Austria Films (selection) Jobcenter (2009 d) Austria Zechmeister (1981 f) German (Eng sub) HD 1:1.66 Austria color/b&w German (Eng sub) stereo 29 min HD/DCP color/b&w Concept/Editor Sabine Groschup Dolby SR 32 min Camera Jerzy Palacz Black-and-white photography Concept/Editors Angela Summereder Barbara Klemm Othmar Schmiderer Sound Eric Spitzer-Marlyn Camera Othmar Schmiderer Producers Sabine Groschup Producer Othmar Schmiderer Georg Weckwerth Production Othmar Schmiderer Filmproduktion Premiere Premiere March 2013 Diagonale Graz February 2012 Vienna

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84>85 Documentary Short Landfill Fiesta The Phantom of Memory Claudia Wohlgenannt Friedemann Derschmidt

Mika cannot wait to see the jungle, so he What is memory for? What do we want from travels to Nicaragua with his great aunt, it? We say we want to learn from it. But that who has taken with her yet another mission: is not happening. It hasn’t happened for to organize a party for the people of Mana- hundreds of years … These words sound gua’s landfill. Here, Mika meets eleven- particularly irritating when one knows they year-old Francis and other children, who live come from the mouth of Ilana Shmueli, poet in a completely different world. She has a and Holocaust survivor. Just when the last completely different take on certain things. eye witnesses to the Shoah and the Second Can they become friends? World War are leaving us forever, Ilana sets out, accompanied by Friedemann Der- Claudia Wohlgenannt *1975 Lustenau Austria schmidt, to find new ways of formulating the question of memory. Austria German/Spanish (Eng sub) Digi Beta 16:9 Friedemann Derschmidt *1967 Salzburg Austria stereo 29 min Films (selection) Meisterschaft (2005 d) Altes Haus (2000 d) Rudyn (1999 d) Concept Claudia Wohlgenannt Austria Camera German/English/Hebrew (Eng sub) Matthias Halibrand HD 16:9 Editor stereo 45 min Joana Scrinzi Concept Friedemann Derschmidt Producer Karin Schneider, Ilana Shmueli Claudia Wohlgenannt Camera Oliver Schneider Production Editor Elke Groen Plan C Filmproduktion Producer Kurt Mayer Premiere May 2013 Erfurt Production kurt mayer film Deutsches Kinder-Medien-Festival Goldener Spatz Premiere March 2013 Diagonale Graz Contact Plan C Filmproduktion Contact kurt mayer film avant-garde short > 88>89 Avant-garde Short Creme 21 CroAX-evoluting errors Eve Heller Adele Raczkövi

A voyage into the slippery nature of conceiv- The advance of human technical civiliza- ing time. Educational films about the phys- tion shifts the dangers for many species ics, measurement, and perception of time from their natural enemies to technological provide the material basis for a cinematic artifacts which become the main threat. language cut-up. Creme 21 taps into the This is also due for my film’s protagonist, 26-frame discrepancy between sound and the frog. In the attempt to adapt to these image inherent to 16 mm film in order to developments, the frog mutates from flesh literally displace the logic of the original to steel, a mutation that will turn out to be a material and render a poetically expansive double error. It is still run over and, like that, temporal contemplation. it completely misses its purpose in the food chain; an evolution of errors, or to be more Eve Heller *1961 Northampton USA exact: … evoluting errors. Films (selection) Self-Examination Remote Control (2009 a-g) Ruby Skin (2005 a-g) Adele Raczkövi *1977 Vienna Austria Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004 a-g) Films (selection) Looking for Love (2010 a-g) Ejected (2008 a-g) Wurscht (2005 a-g) Austria English Austria HD 1:1.77 No dialogue color/b&w HD 16:9 stereo 10 min Dolby Stereo 4 min

Realisation Concept Eve Heller Adele Raczkövi Ed Siblik Premiere Camera October 2013 Eduardo Roca Silva New York Film Festival Editor Adele Raczkövi Sales sixpackfilm Premiere March 2013 Vienna Tricky Women Film Festival

Contact Adele Raczkövi Dark Liquidity Un divertissement d’amour Didi Bruckmayr Michaela Schwentner

The video interprets various phenomena of Un divertissement d’amour focuses on the the virtual capital markets, such as high- experience of space and on verbal and non- frequency trading, dark pools or dark liquid- verbal communication. The focus is on a ity, noise, simultaneity, volatility, etc. Tools: conversation made up from text fragments. real-time 3D rendering, flock algorithm, fluid What can be seen and what can be heard solver, force directed graph, box 2D and create an entity without one being subordi- sound. nated to the other. The conversation can be understood as a contemporary version of Didi Bruckmayr *1966 Linz Austria Plato’s Symposium. Films (selection) Fragmented (2010 a-g) Trendfollower (2009 a-g) Flexible Cities Michaela Schwentner *1970 Linz Austria (2008 a-g) Films (selection) prospects (2011 d) des souvenirs vagues (2009 a-g) speech (2009 a-g) Austria No dialogue Austria HD 16:9 English color/b&w Digi Beta 16:9 Dolby Digital 7 min Dolby SR 11 min Realisation Concept/Editor Didi Bruckmayr Michaela Schwentner Key Cast Premiere April 2013 Anna Mendelssohn Crossing Europe Linz Irene Coticchio Hubsi Kramar Contact Camera Martin Putz Didi Bruckmayr Sound Nik Hummer

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90>91 Avant-garde Short exhaustibility Exterior Extended Eni Brandner Siegfried A. Fruhauf

A landscape that is used to supply the An epileptic piece of cinema. Frame by city. Cars flash across the road, passing oil frame, Siegfried A. Fruhauf has digitally pumps and wind turbines, periphery and reworked and rearranged analog film foot- suburbs move by at accelerated speed. age and copied it back onto 35 mm film. Through streets, along facades right into The result is challenging and radical. While the maze of the city. The view to the horizon the camera’s original gaze looks out into a keeps changing in a sublime accumulation garden from a ruined house, with increasing of things that are seemingly supplied in reworkings, interiors and exteriors begin abundance. Ever changing fragments of a to merge. What emerges is a special space city that has been growing over the centu- that can be subjectively experienced: its ries dance along the streets in their varied imaginary inside. (Diagonale) stylistic interpretations. Siegfried A. Fruhauf *1976 Heiligenberg Austria Eni Brandner *1981 Innsbruck Austria Films (selection) Schwere Augen (2011 a-g) Film Granica – Border (2009 a-g) Tranquility (2010 a-g) Palmes d’Or (2009 a-g)

Austria Austria No dialogue No dialogue HD 16:9 35 mm 1:1.85 stereo 9 min b&w Dolby SR 9 min Realisation Eni Brandner Realisation Sound Siegfried A. Fruhauf Christof Dienz Premiere Premiere March 2013 November 2012 Diagonale Graz One Day Animation Festival Vienna Sales sixpackfilm Contact Eni Brandner from left to right, top to Im Wiener Prater bottom Flora Watzal Friedl vom Gröller

Ever since the beginnings of performance The title already leads us astray: Friedl vom art, the camera has stood ready as record- Gröller’s film is not about the amusement ing apparatus. Film and video seem to be park we usually associate with the name. the most suitable medium for playing back The spectacle in the film takes place in a the movements of bodies in space and over much more basic sense. Evident here are time, complex processes and narrative conscious references to both Viennese entanglements. Yet what happens in the Actionism and to one of Gröller’s early films. opposite case, when the space performs What is “unsettling” about Im Wiener Prater and along with it, the recording apparatus? is the gaze forced upon the viewer: a woman (Claudia Slanar) looks at us, questioning and self-confident – now that is pure cinema of attraction. Flora Watzal *1975 Vienna Austria (Naoko Kaltschmidt) Films (selection) Strobogramm (2011 a-g) Zeit im Bild (2007 a-g) Parabol (1999 a-g) Friedl vom Gröller *1946 London UK Films (selection) Gaelle Obiegly (2011 a-g) Der Austria Phototermin (2010 a-g) Passage Briare (2009 a-g) No dialogue HD 16:9 stereo 15 min Austria No dialogue Concept 16 mm 1:1.37 Flora Watzal b&w 2 min Key Cast Robert Sedlacek Sales Sibel Toprakkiran sixpackfilm Camera Judith Benedikt

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92>93 Avant-garde Short Leben hoch 2 Main Hall Barbara Hölbling, Mario Höber Philipp Fleischmann

Three story lines, three places and the Designed by Josef Maria Olbrich in 1898, the conflict between mortality and justice. main exhibition hall of the Vienna Seces- Parents whose children suffer from incur- sion is generally regarded as the first White able diseases talk about their daily lives; a Cube of art history. The myth of the neutral professor and her team investigate geneti- space has a long tradition of being critically cally determined malformations of the brain; examined by the institution itself. Using 19 and a philosopher and cultural theorist, especially designed cameras, Main Hall adds Thomas Macho, explores the question of the a purely cinematographic gesture to the boundaries of fairness. A network of cross space’s history by having it look at its own references of encounters and documenta- architecture. tion, “Life to the Power of Two” sketches pictures of the visibility and invisibility of Philipp Fleischmann *1985 Hollabrunn Austria disability. Films (selection) according the script (2010 a-g) Cinematographie (2009 a-g) Who’s that Girl? (2008 a-g) Barbara Hölbling *1966 Hall/Tyrol Austria Mario Höber *1974 Feldbach Austria Austria Films (selection) alexanders (2011 a-g) sichten No dialogue (2006 a-g) karel (2001 short d) 35 mm 1:1.33 5 min Austria German (Eng sub) Realisation Digi Beta Philipp Fleischmann stereo 45 min Premiere September 2013 Realisation Toronto Int. Film Festival Barbara Hölbling Mario Höber Contact Philipp Fleischmann Premiere September 2013 Steirischer Herbst

Contact hoelb/hoeb A Messenger from the Shadows Parasit Norbert Pfaffenbichler Nikki Schuster Notes on Film 06-A/Monologue 01

A one-person piece for the “man with a Mutants composed of natural and synthetic thousand faces”, silent horror-film icon, Lon materials are conquering nature, clawing on Chaney. Chaney rose to fame as a master to rock crevices, hollows in cacti and crusts of disguise with a penchant for grotesque of salt. For brief moments, these parasites appearances and torturous contortions. leave their construct and transform, running Pfaffenbichler has remounted the 46 pre- rampant, sprawling, entangling the viewer. served films of the 200 that Chaney made Time and space seem to dissolve before into a tribute to his art, to the uncanny power viewers are freed from their tangles and of the horror film, and to the paradoxical flung back into a deserted landscape. enchantment of cinema. An atmospheric nightmare piece about the prisoners of a Nikki Schuster *1974 Steyr Austria shadow realm, condemned to eternal life Films (selection) Berlin Recyclers (2012 a-g) Microphobia (2010 a-g) Robotant (2007 a-g) through the light of the projector’s beam. (Christoph Huber) Austria No dialogue Norbert Pfaffenbichler *1967 Steyr Austria HD/Digi Beta 16:9 Films (selection) Conference – Notes on Film 05 stereo 8 min (2011 a-g) Intermezzo – Notes on Film 04 (2011 a-g) Mosaik Mécanique – Notes on Film 03 (2007 a-g) Realisation Nikki Schuster Austria Soundtrack No dialogue Billy Roisz HD 1:1.77 DCP color/b&w Producer Dolby SR 60 min Nikki Schuster

Realisation Premiere March 2013 Norbert Pfaffenbichler Diagonale Graz Key Cast Lon Chaney Sound Bernhard Lang Sales sixpackfilm Premiere March 2013 Diagonale Graz

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94>95 Avant-garde Short Rooms Sound on Film Elke Groen Johannes Hammel Christian Neubacher

Rooms deals with the evanescent nature of In the beginning is music. The composer is film material. It is an (almost) deserted world the director of the film, drawing the optical that is shown in the found S-8 mm footage. soundtrack onto the image. Abstract images We see a last flicker of the memories the based on the optical soundtrack provide a protagonists wanted to hold on to. Every- visualization of the music: sound as image thing slowly fades into darkness. For a last in the mind’s eye. The source material is time, the protagonists show us around their gleaned from the head and tail leader of whimsically furnished 1970s apartments, like movie films, normally used to test film pro- ghosts they appear from shadowy corners, jectors for sound and image quality. only to disappear into the dark again. For one last time, they watch from the window as Elke Groen *1969 Gmunden Austria cars pass by, stare at the night-time rows of Films (selection) nightStill (2007 a-g) Every Seventh Person (co-director 2006 d) windows of the buildings opposite. Bunica (co-director 2005 d)

Johannes Hammel *1963 Basel Switzerland Christian Neubacher *1972 Salzburg Austria Films (selection) Jour Sombre (2011 a-g) Folge mir Films (selection) East Man (2008 a-g) Muß ma (2010 f) Abendmahl (2005 a-g) immer lachen (2002 short d) Split (2000 a-g)

Austria Austria No dialogue No dialogue S-8 mm/Digi Beta 4:3 35 mm 1:1.85 stereo 10 min Dolby SR 12 min

Realisation Johannes Hammel Realisation Sound Heinz Ditsch Elke Groen Bernhard Fleischmann Christian Neubacher George W. Johnson Producer Producer Johannes Hammel Elke Groen Production hammelfilm Production groen.film Premiere March 2013 Diagonale Graz Contact groen.film Sales sixpackfilm Und du hast nie etwas Water from Grain gesehen Nives Widauer Josephine Ahnelt Meinhard Rauchensteiner The video piece is an attempt to provide a Josephine Ahnelt accompanies two youths, reverse perspective countering the events a boy and a girl, with her Super 8 camera. of March 1938, when Adolf Hitler proclaimed Where does the trip that is life lead them? Austria’s “Anschluss” to the German Reich. As viewers, we know nothing about the pro- Long lines of sight across Heldenplatz, tagonists, everything is a matter of projec- filmed from the buildings surrounding the tion and guessing: But it is precisely through square, cast a net across the site and at this indirect, lyrical, documentary-like form the same time convey a normality shown in that a voyeuristic enthusiasm for stories the banality of a bystander leaning casually beyond pure representation finds nourish- against the respective buildings. ment. (Brigitta Burger-Utzer)

Nives Widauer *1965 Basel Switzerland Josephine Ahnelt *1987 Vienna Austria Films (selection) Todesfuge (1999 a-g) Films (selection) Tic Tac (2011 a-g) Sie nahten sich mir ganz ohne Scheu (1998 a-g) flugs (1993 a-g) Austria No dialogue Meinhard Rauchensteiner *1970 Vienna Austria HD b&w Austria 13 min DV 4:3 Dolby Stereo Realisation 17 min Josephine Ahnelt

Concept Nives Widauer Premiere November 2013 Meinhard Rauchensteiner Denver Film Festival Key Cast Wolfram Berger Camera Robert Neumüller Sales Editors Florentin Berger sixpackfilm Nives Widauer

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96>97 Avant-garde Short Werbung Thomas Glänzel

Werbung is all about cinema advertisements. Using the same code and the same lan- guage, it is an undercover counter-strike, a secret agent in the form of celluloid. Adverts are all about sexy curves, fast cars and pure enjoyment, on the surface. Dig deeper into it and you’ll see what’s behind it.

Thomas Glänzel *1981 St. Pölten Austria Films (selection) Trailer (2010 a-g) Domino 16 (2009 a-g)

Austria English 35 mm 1:1.85 DCP Dolby SR 2 min

Realisation Thomas Glänzel Sound Tomas Karasek

Premiere April 2013 St. Pölten Cinema Next

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fiction coming soon > Abschied von den Eltern Astrid Ofner

Austria Peter Weiss’ book by the same name is about “the German realization of a family’s complete failure to live DV/Digi Beta 4:3 together after holding out for decades.” It provides stereo approx. 80 min the basis for Astrid Ofner’s sensitive biographical film about the author and was shot on Super 8 with Screenplay the same shimmering uncertainty that attaches to Astrid Ofner memories. Key Cast Sylvie Rohrer Astrid Ofner *1968 Linz Austria Julian Sharp Films (selection) Tell Me on Tuesday (2007 a-g) Jetzt und Camera alle Zeit (1993 short d) Savannah Bay (1989 a-g) Astrid Ofner Peter Roehsler Editor Renate Maragh-Ablinger

Producer Peter Roehsler Production nanookfilm

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102 >103 Fiction Coming Soon Das Gedicht Alex Trejo

Austria Eight-year-old Emil is supposed to read a poem at the German (Eng sub) funeral of his recently deceased father. It becomes HD his only companion in mourning and perhaps provides Dolby Stereo 75 min the only possibility for a perfect leavetaking, since his Screenplay mother is incapable of consoling him, his uncle trig- Alex Trejo gers old emotional wounds and his precocious cousin Key Cast leaves him in the lurch on the day of the memorial. Max Viehrig Pilar Fantova Alex Trejo *1978 Mexico City Mexico Andrea Clausen Films (selection) Der Hund (2007 short f) Camera Esperando (2005 short d) Benjamin Klein

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Contact Alex Trejo heimatfilm Ludwig Wüst

Austria In our fast-paced, nomadic times, the word “home” German (Eng sub) (Heimat) has become an almost anachronistic term. On HD 1:1.85 an emotional and personal level, it still asks the ques- Dolby Stereo approx. 110 min tion of where we come from, to allow us to discover who we are. Sometimes an entire life is not enough to Screenplay do so. heimatfilm is a film mosaic of the life concepts of Ludwig Wüst people between 7 and 70 who speak about how they Key Cast view their lives and might fail the next day or find a way Claudia Martini Nenad Smigoc to go on. Martina Spitzer Camera Ludwig Wüst *1965 Vilseck/Bavaria Germany Klemens Koscher Films (selection) Das Haus meines Vaters (2013 f) Editor Tape End (2011 f) Koma (2009 f) Samuel Käppeli

Producer Ludwig Wüst Production film-pla.net

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104 >105 Fiction Coming Soon Parabellum Lukas Valenta Rinner

Austria/Argentina/ Hernán arrives with a group of strangers at an isolated Urugay house in the Delta area of Tigre, a vast labyrinth of small Spanish (Ger/Eng sub) islands surrounded by streams and rivers. Amongst Dolby Digital 90 min housewives, professionals and an elderly tennis instruc- Screenplay tor, Hernán constitutes part of a middle-class commu ni ty Lukas Valenta Rinner that has left their comfortable lives in suburban Buenos Camera Aires. Together, they undergo a strict training regime, Roman Kasseroller apparently in preparation for the end of the world. Editor Ana Godoy Lukas Valenta Rinner *1985 Salzburg Austria Producers Films (selection) About the distance (co-director 2012 d) Lukas Valenta Rinner A letter to Fukuyama (2010 short f) Juan Pablo Martinez Production Nabis Filmgroup (A) 2M Cine (ARG) La Pobladora Cine (UY)

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Contact Nabis Filmgroup Sarah and Sarah Peter Kern

Austria 82-year-old Sarah Kulmbacher is a former actress, with English (Ger sub) some success during the Nazi era. Now suffering from DV Cam/Digi Beta 1:1.85 dementia, she is looked after by a nurse, Mizzi, who b&w stereo 70 min also provides terminal care to children who are dying of cancer and have no family. Mizzi takes 10-year-old Screenplay cancer patient Sarah to the old woman’s apartment. Peter Kern She briefly leaves the flat and dies in the street. Sarah Key Cast and Sarah remain behind. Traute Furthner Margarete Tiesel Florian Hanel Peter Kern *1949 Vienna Austria Camera Films (selection) Diamond Fever or Better Buy Yourself a Peter Roehsler Colorful Balloon (2012 f) Killer Nurses (2011 f) King Kong’s Tears (2011 f) Producer Michael Klangvoll Production Kulturfabrik Austria

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106 >107 Fiction Coming Soon Sin & Illy Maria Hengge

Austria/Germany After a relapse into heroin use, 18-year-old Sin decides to German take matters into her own hands to overcome her addic- Digital 1:2.35 tion. She convinces her friend Illy that a trip to an island stereo 90 min in the sun will get them away from the drugs. Just before Screenplay leaving, they go to see Illy’s mum to get the girl’s pass- Maria Hengge port. This outing shows how different they are in charac- Camera ter and social background; their plan falls through. Sin Peter Roehsler realizes that she must travel the road to recovery alone. Editor Susanne Eppensteiner Maria Hengge *1970 Chicago USA Producers Films (selection) The Last Bus (2008 short f) Maria Hengge Peter Roehsler Production nanookfilm (AT) abadon productions (DE)

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Contact nanookfilm documentary coming soon > 110>111 Documentary Coming Soon Die andere Seite Judith Zdesar

Austria Two women yell questions into the blackness of a for- German (Eng sub) est and patiently wait for an answer. An old physicist HD sits in front of a radio listening to the white noise, wait- Dolby Stereo approx. 90 min ing for a message from his long-dead wife. A man sings in the dark while a table in front of him slowly levitates. Concept The film is a journey into a world of dream images and Judith Zdesar hopes, to places where strange things do happen, to Camera people looking for the invisible. A departure towards Michael Schindegger Editor “the other side”, where the certainties of everyday life Christin Veith no longer apply and anything seems possible.

Producers Judith Zdesar *1980 Villach Austria Nikolaus Geyrhalter Films (selection) All the Shades of One Long Night (2011 d) Markus Glaser Spaß mit Hase (2010 short f) Diary of Someone Waiting Michael Kitzberger (2007 short d) Wolfgang Widerhofer Production Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion

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Contact Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion Anna Through the Mirror Susanne Brandstätter

Austria Anna Trough the Mirror is a family portrait revolving German/French/English around the development of 12-year-old Anna. She is (Eng sub) an exceptional talent who began playing the violin at HD/Digi Beta stereo approx. 90 min the age of three. Her most fervent wish is to become a soloist. Her goal draws closer when violin virtuoso Concept/Editor Pierre Amoyal discovers her. Yet she also must face Susanne Brandstätter drastic changes – like having to leave family and Camera friends in Pressbaum, Austria, to study in Lausanne. Joerg Burger This challenges Anna as well as her entire family. Producer Susanne Brandstätter Susanne Brandstätter * Los Angeles USA Films (selection) The Future’s Past – Creating Cambodia Completion (2012 d) Rule of Law (2006 d) Checkmate – Strategy of a 2014 Revolution (2004 d)

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112>113 Documentary Coming Soon Atelier de Conversation Bernhard Braunstein

Austria/France In one of the largest libraries in Paris, people from all French (Ger/Eng sub) over the world meet to speak French in the “Atelier de DCP Conversation”. War refugees sit next to businessmen, stereo approx. 80 min care-free students next to victims of political persecu- Concept tion. As different as they may be, a common objective Bernhard Braunstein unites all participants: They are struggling with a new Camera language. Adrien Lecouturier Bernhard Braunstein *1979 Salzburg Austria Producers Films (selection) sleeping image (2013 a-g) Bernhard Braunstein Pharao Bipolar (co-director 2008 short d) Dominik Tschütscher Reisen im eigenen Zimmer (co-director 2006 short d) Production Schaller08 (AT) Supersonicglide (FR)

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Contact Bernhard Braunstein Auf den Tod des Kindes kann nicht verzichtet werden Thomas Fürhapter

Austria Who or what decides whether an unborn child is to live German (Eng sub) or die if prenatal diagnosis reveals an anomaly? What HD 16:9 does the established practice of selective abortion stereo approx. 80 min mean for our society? Starting from these questions, Concept the documentary film essay explores the issue’s medi- Thomas Fürhapter cal, legal, historical and political backgrounds, calling Camera into question our concepts of handicap and social Judith Benedikt normality. Editor Dieter Pichler Thomas Fürhapter *1971 Vienna Austria Producers Films (selection) Michael Berger. Eine Hysterie (2010 short d) Katharina Mosser Planes (2006 a-g ) Das Gelb ohne Zebra (2004 short d) Johannes Rosenberger Production Navigator Film Produktion

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11 4 >115 Documentary Coming Soon Aus einem nahen Land Manfred Neuwirth

Austria A farm, about a kilometer from my house, is the point No dialogue of departure for slowly getting to know a territory HD 16:9 that seems familiar but is most exciting where it stereo approx. 120 min reveals something new. I am an explorer, archivist, photographer, sound seeker – it is my choice of Realisation trails to follow that leads me to people, to places, to Manfred Neuwirth landscapes, to work and to rest.

Producer Manfred Neuwirth *1954 Vienna Austria Manfred Neuwirth Films (selection) scapes and elements (2011 short d) Tibet Production revisited (2005 d) Erinnerungen an ein verlorenes Land loop media (1988 d) Completion 2014

Contact Manfred Neuwirth Bianca läuft … Tina Bara

Austria The film’s 30-year-old protagonist is suffering from a German serious medical condition, physically as well as psy- HD 16:9 chologically. In defiance of her ailment, Bianca jogs mono Dolby Digital several kilometers a day – although she keeps fall- approx. 83 min ing – and puts her pain and suffering at the center of brutally honest realistically painted self-portraits. She Concept/Camera is an autodidact, without training or contact to the out- Tina Bara side world. For many years she has been commuting Editors Tina Bara between her house in a remote part of Burgenland and Oliver Brodt the neurology department of the regional hospital …

Producer Tina Bara *1962 Kleinmachnow Germany Tina Bara Films (selection) Weltenbauer der Poesie, Videogespräche mit Christian Ide Hintze (2013 d) Wespen-Akte: Re-action (2009 d) Completion Audienzen (2007 d) 2014

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116 >117 Documentary Coming Soon China Reverse Judith Benedikt

Austria Most ended up in Vienna by chance, working in German/Mandarin Chinese restaurants. Dreaming of a place of their own (Ger/Eng sub) or needing to pay for family to come. It was a life of HD Dolby Digital endless work. When they could finally relax, there was approx. 90 min time for questions. China Reverse puts everything into question, without Concept asking. Life could have been very different, not in Judith Benedikt Europe, but in China. Those who stayed took advantage Gregor Stadlober Camera of the economic boom. Judith Benedikt China Reverse looks behind the facade of financial suc- Editors cess. Noticing casual details – an antique porcelain Andrea Wagner dish, native songs, and a smile that refers to the future Niki Mossböck but cannot help trembling. Producer Peter Janecek Judith Benedikt *1977 Lienz Austria Production PLAESION Film + Vision

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Contact PLAESION Film + Vision Cinema Futures Michael Palm

Austria Cinema Futures is a complex film essay on the future German/English of the cinema and of film in times of digital moving (Ger/Eng sub) pictures. At a time when analogue film is rapidly disap- HD 16:9 approx. 90 min pearing and cinema and TV are going digital, we are faced with a massive loss of audio-visual memory. Are Concept film and TV archives at the brink of a dark age? Is film Michael Palm dying? Or is it only changing? Camera Joerg Burger Michael Palm *1965 Linz Austria Editor Films (selection) Low Definition Control – Malfunctions #0 Michael Palm (2011 d) Edgar G. Ulmer – The Man Off-screen (2004 d) Sea Concrete Human – Malfunctions #1 (2001 short d) Producer Ralph Wieser Production Mischief Films

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118 >119 Documentary Coming Soon Double Happiness Ella Raidel

Austria Chinese mega cities are houses of mirrors, prisms that German/English/ multiply the longing for a life elsewhere – a yearning Chinese dialect (Ger/ that can be satisfied with the help of replicas of cities Eng/Mandarin sub) HD 16:9 and places in the West. Hallstatt and its Chinese clone Dolby Stereo epitomize the original and copy of such fabricated approx. 80 min dreams. Dreams and reality combine on parallel levels of expression to visualize the Chinese dream. Concept Ella Raidel Ella Raidel *1970 Gmunden Austria Camera Films (selection) Play Life Series (2012 a-g) Subverses – Martin Putz China in Mozambique (2011 d) Slam Video Maputo (2010 a-g) Ella Raidel Editors Karina Ressler Ella Raidel

Producers Peter Janecek Ella Raidel

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Contact Ella Raidel Echte Männer? Tina Leisch

Austria What is a real man? How do men see themselves out- German side the clichés conveyed by society and the media? HD 1:1.85 In how far are they free to define their own maleness, stereo approx. 90 min to what extent is a male role forced upon them? With the help of long-term observation, we accompany boys Concept and men from different religious, cultural and social Tina Leisch backgrounds and with very contrary notions of what Camera constitutes a “real man”. Tina Leisch Peter Roehsler Editor Tina Leisch * Munich Germany Petra Zöpnek Films (selection) Roque Dalton, let’s shoot the night (2013 d) Dagegen muss ich etwas tun (2009 d) Gangster Girls (2008 d) Producer Peter Roehsler Production nanookfilm

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120 >121 Documentary Coming Soon Elephants in Sussex Wolfgang Konrad Ursula Hansbauer, Clemens Stachel

Austria Frozen and bodiless, genes and the information they English/German/French contain are turning into time travelers – be it a sheaf (Ger/Eng sub) of barley, the stem cells of a polar bear or drops of HD 16:9 stereo approx. 90 min human blood. Within this time capsule we also place old dreams: the re-creation of extinct animal species, Concept putting an end to world hunger, human life without ill- Wolfgang Konrad ness or disease. We embark on an expedition that will Ursula Hansbauer assemble some of the greatest and oldest archives Clemens Stachel Camera of life and the most modern biobanks. We meet people Leena Koppe who are reconstructing the order of nature. And Editor we experience a struggle over life itself that not only Ursula Hansbauer affects scientists, but all of us.

Producer Wolfgang Konrad *1974 Graz Austria Wolfgang Konrad Ursula Hansbauer *1973 Salzburg Austria Production Films (selection) Forst (2005 short d) LUC Film Clemens Stachel *1974 Wiener Neustadt Austria Completion 2014

Contact LUC Film Emile Rainer Frimmel, Tizza Covi

Austria Emile Zuckerkandl is the only grandson of the famous German/English Austrian journalist, Berta Zuckerkandl. After years of HD 16:9 fleeing from the Nazi regime he managed to build a stereo approx. 80 min major scientific career in the US. 89 years old today, he lives in California with his wife Jane. His memories Concept paint a vivid picture of 20th-century history with all its Rainer Frimmel highs and lows. Camera Rainer Frimmel Rainer Frimmel *1971 Vienna Austria Editors Tizza Covi *1971 Bolzano Italy Tizza Covi Films (selection) The Shine of Day (2012 f) Rainer Frimmel La Pivellina (2009 f) Babooska (2005 d) Producer Rainer Frimmel Production Vento Film

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122>123 Documentary Coming Soon Escape to the Other Side Ralf Jacobs

Austria Ten thousands of Europeans travel to Morocco every German/French/English winter in their mobile homes: German workers, Finnish (Ger/Fr/Eng sub) managers, people from different countries and social HD 16:9 stereo 97 min classes. Many have sold their houses and given away possessions once held dear. Now they settle in trailer Concept parks – remote, city-like camping lots – to live out a Ralf Jacobs dream of freedom and permanent vacation. They resist Martin Leidenfrost growing old, withdrawing from the cycles of the sea- Camera Ralf Jacobs sons and the social obligations of their former homes. Editors Ralf Jacobs Ralf Jacobs *1969 Bad Pyrmont Germany Roland Zumbühl Films (selection) mad tom song (2008 a-g) go back to africa (2004 d) marching gaily (2001 short d) Producer Ralf Jacobs Production Ralf Jacobs Film

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Contact Ralf Jacobs Europas Grenzen sebastian j. f.

Austria Europas Grenzen (Europe’s Borders) is the story of 72 English African refugees adrift in a dinghy in the Mediterranean 4K 1:1.85 Sea, without food or water, for 14 days. They are on Dolby Stereo approx. 90 min their way from Libya to Lampedusa when they run out of fuel. Two NATO warships and several fishing boats Concept spot the vessel drifting helplessly in the sea but aban- Fate don the men in the dinghy to their fate. When the boat Camera is washed ashore on the Libyan coast two weeks later, Lukas Gnaiger Editor of the 72 passengers on board only nine are still alive. s&a sebastian j. f. *1969 Austria Producer Films (selection) War on Terror™ (2011 d) The War on Drugs sebastian j. f. (2007 d) Info wars (2004 d) Production Cronos Film

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124 >125 Documentary Coming Soon Everyday Rebellion Arman T. Riahi, Arash T. Riahi

Austria/Switzerland Everyday Rebellion is a feature documentary and cross- Multiple languages media project about the power of creative, non-violent (Eng/Ger sub) activism and modern civil disobedience. A project about HD 1:2.35 stereo 120 min the various methods of non-violent resistance, new and old, shown through recent movements such as Occupy Concept Wall Street, 15m, Femen, the Iranian and Syrian upris- The Riahi Brothers ings as well as the Arab Spring. Everyday Rebellion Camera shows the work and life of activists all over the world Mario Minichmayr The Riahi Brothers who often risk their lives to fight for a better tomorrow. Dominik Spritzendorfer Arman T. Riahi *1981 Isfahan Iran Producers Films (selection) Schwarzkopf (2011 d) Elektronikschrott Arash T. Riahi (2005 short f) Michael Seeber Sabine Gruber Arash T. Riahi *1972 Isfahan Iran Hercli Bundi Films (selection) Everything will not be fine (2012 d) Susanne Guggenberger For a Moment, Freedom (2008 f) Exile Family Movie (2006 d) Production Golden Girls Filmproduktion (AT) Mira Film (CH)

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Contact Golden Girls Filmproduktion Focus on Infinity Joerg Burger

Austria Focus on Infinity is an essayistic journey to people, German/English machinery and locations connected to the origins of HD our cosmos and existence. It is a personal and intui- stereo 90 min tive exploration of the roots and boundaries of our Concept/Camera imagination, shaped as it is by what we perceive with Joerg Burger our senses. The changing relationship between the sci- Editor ences, philosophy and religion plays a key role here. Michael Palm Joerg Burger *1961 Vienna Austria Producers Films (selection) Way of Passion (2011 d) Wolf Suschitzky – Joerg Burger Photographer and Cameraman (2009 short d) Gibellina – Il Georg Misch terremoto (2007 d) Ralph Wieser Production Joerg Burger Filmproduktion Mischief Films

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126 >127 Documentary Coming Soon Der Fotograf vor der Kamera Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel

Austria Photographer Erich Lessing is a great witness to and German chronicler of the 20th century, 89 years old by now but HD far from retired. Lessing’s post-war photo reportages stereo 90 min document political events, such as the signature of the Austrian State Treaty or the Hungarian Revolution of Concept 1956. He still is on the board of Magnum Photos and Tizza Covi has been developing smartphone apps for some time. Rainer Frimmel Camera Tizza Covi *1971 Bolzano Italy Rainer Frimmel Rainer Frimmel *1971 Vienna Austria Editor Films (selection) The Shine of Day (2012 f) Emily Artmann La Pivellina (2009 f) Babooska (2005 d) Producers Ralph Wieser Georg Misch Production Mischief Films

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Contact Mischief Films FtWTF Katharina Lampert, Cordula Thym

Austria The film focuses on the lives of four trans-identified German (Eng sub) people who were born as women. Trans-identified HD/Digi Beta 16:9 means choosing to live in another gender than the one color/b&w Dolby Stereo you were assigned at birth. It features, e.g. extensive approx. 90 min interview sessions, a visual discourse about the trans- gender body and a panel discussion about transgender Concept/Editors activism and politics. The film will be side-narrated by Katharina Lampert an animated fictional tale about the rites of passage in a Cordula Thym Camera society where everybody is free to choose their gender. Judith Benedikt Katharina Lampert *1976 Vienna Austria Completion Films (selection) verliebt, verzopft, verwegen (co-director 2014 2009 d) wenn wir da sind (2008 short d)

Contact Cordula Thym *1977 Kufstein Austria Katharina Lampert Films (selection) verliebt, verzopft, verwegen (co-director Cordula Thym 2009 d) Beyond Borderline (2002 short d)

128 >129 Documentary Coming Soon Global Shopping Village Ulli Gladik

Austria/Croatia Shopping malls have been thriving in European cities German/English/ for many years. Popular with customers and contro- Croatian (Eng sub) versial in public discourse, they are transforming the HD 16:9 Dolby Stereo economic structures, social relations and architectural approx. 90 min landscapes of our cities. The documentary follows this movement: the film meets important players in devel- Concept opment, marketing and architecture, as well as politi- Ulli Gladik cians, consumers and retailers in different countries all Camera Klemens Hufnagl across Europe. Enzo Brandner Sandra Merseburger Ulli Gladik *1970 Bruck/Mur Austria Films (selection) Natasha (2008 d) drei cents (2004 short d) Producers Das Reversad (2003 a-g) Arash T. Riahi Michael Seeber Sabine Gruber Sinisˇa Juri¤i´c Production Golden Girls Filmproduktion (AT) Nukleus Film (HR)

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Contact Golden Girls Filmproduktion holz.erde.fleisch Sigmund Steiner

Austria holz.erde.fleisch (wood.soil.flesh) explores the world of HD/Digi Beta 16:9 rural farming, goes in search of a father and the film- Dolby Stereo maker’s origins. approx. 90 min

Concept/Editor Sigmund Steiner *1978 Judenburg Austria Sigmund Steiner Films (selection) harz (2007 short f) california (2004 short d) Camera firn (2003 short f) Michael Schindegger Editor Sigmund Steiner

Producer Flavio Marchetti Production La Banda Film

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130 >131 Documentary Coming Soon Jelzin, Punk & Heroin Ivette Löcker

Austria Is it easy to be young? Six women and men from Saint Russian (Ger/Eng sub) Petersburg who grew up in the turbulent days of the HD 1:1.85 1990s offer some answers. Their stories and memories Dolby Stereo approx. 90 min loosely intertwine to form a collective biography. They take a look at their lives: at their revolt against their Concept parents and against the system, their search for iden- Ivette Löcker tity – at “Yeltsin, Punk & Heroin.” Camera Frank Amann Ivette Löcker *1970 Bregenz Austria Editor Films (selection) Night Shifts (2010 d) Marina & Sasha, Michael Palm Coal Shippers (2007 short d)

Producer Ralph Wieser Production Mischief Films

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Contact Mischief Films Kick Out Your Boss Elisabeth Scharang

Austria I am a film worker. I am lucky, I like my job. Still, I face German/Serbian/ financial problems, exhaustion, existential fears. But English/Portuguese fear does not change or improve anything. Thus I am (Eng sub) HD taking a break, for a change of perspective. And I have Dolby Digital started to ask questions: from workers in a self-man- approx. 90 min aged Serbian factory, from young creative-industry workers who are building a network in Graz and see life Concept/Camera as a whole, and from a visionary from Brazil who Elisabeth Scharang Editor start ed to introduce democratic management in his Katharina Pichler multinational enterprise 30 years ago.

Producer Elisabeth Scharang *1969 Bruck/Mur Austria Gabriele Kranzelbinder Films (selection) Vielleicht in einem anderen Leben (2010 f) Production Mein Mörder (2006 f) Tintenfischalarm (2006 d) KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production

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132 >133 Documentary Coming Soon Lampedusa in Winter Jakob Brossmann

Austria The Italian “refugee island” of Lampedusa is in the firm Italian/English/ grip of winter tristesse. Reporters and tourists have German/Tigrinya left, the remaining refugees fight to be taken to the (Ger/Eng/It sub) 4K Digital 1:1.85 mainland. While they are finally transferred by plane, Dolby Stereo the fishermen strike for a functioning ferry connection. approx. 90 min The tiny community at the edge of Europe is engaged in a desperate fight for dignity, and for solidarity with Concept those who many consider the cause of the ongoing cri- Jakob Brossmann Camera sis: the African boat people. Christian Flatzek José Lorenzo Wasner Jakob Brossmann *1986 Vienna Austria Editor Films (selection) Tagwerk (2011 short d) #unibrennt – Bettine Susanne Ties Bildungsprotest 2.0 (2010 d) call back (2010 a-g)

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Contact Jakob Brossmann Last Shelter – Refugee Protest in Vienna Gerald Igor Hauzenberger

Austria 50 young men are seeking refuge in Vienna’s Votiv- English/Pashu/Urdu/ kirche. They have fled from one of the world’s most German dangerous regions, where they witnessed schools HD 1:1.85 DCP color/b&w being burnt down, people being shot by the Taliban Dolby Digital and US drone attacks. Risking their lives, they now approx. 95 min loudly protest against European asylum policies, whose inconsistency and contradictions wear them down. Concept Gerald Igor Almost without any legal rights and facing deportation Hauzenberger Gerhard Tuschla and death, they are reduced to the status of “homo Camera sacer”, human beings stripped of all privileges and Matthias Gritsch abandoned to their fate. Martin Klingenböck Dominik Spritzendorfer Gerald Igor Hauzenberger *1968 Alkoven Austria Films (selection) Der Prozess (2011 d) Einst süße Heimat Producers (2007 d) East Timor – In the Eye of the Beholder (2003 d) Michael Seeber Gerald Igor Hauzenberger Production FrameLab Film- und Videoproduktion

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134 >135 Documentary Coming Soon Monumenti Eva Hausberger

Austria An archaic bronze foundry in the heart of Tirana. Albanian (Eng/Ger sub) 60-year-old bronze specialist, Vladimir Metani, used to DCP cast propaganda and eternity into opulent monuments Surround 5.1 approx. 70 min on behalf of the regime during the Communist era. He has now been commissioned to create another Concept monument for the 100th anniversary of Albania’s Eva Hausberger independence. Where is Albania 20 years after the Camera collapse of the dictatorship? A film on the individual Eva Hausberger Editor and collective search for identity. Gerhard Daurer Eva Hausberger *1983 Judenburg Austria Producer Films (selection) Kopfball (2008 a-g) Bildein (2006 short f) Eva Hausberger Die Leiberl der Barbara Wilding (co-director 2004 a-g)

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Contact Eva Hausberger Moving Past Between Johanna Kirsch, Katharina Lampert

Austria Laden with our parents’ ideals of the ’68 generation, German/English we go in search of how we want to lead our lives. We (Ger/Eng sub) meet Christa, Wim, Ute and the Wieserhoislers, who Digi Beta 16:9 stereo have all taken a big step towards living by their own approx. 70 min beliefs and desires. During our visits, we learn what their daily lives outside the norm are like, how utopias Realisation become actual places, and why there is no dropping Johanna Kirsch out of society. Katharina Lampert

Completion Johanna Kirsch *1980 Salzburg Austria 2014 Films (selection) me, the big bad wolf and the radical sense of freedom (2004 a-g) Contact Johanna Kirsch Katharina Lampert *1976 Vienna Austria Katharina Lampert Films (selection) verliebt, verzopft, verwegen (co-director 2009 d)

136>137 Documentary Coming Soon The Ninth Biospherian Ralo Mayer, Oliver Gemballa

Austria Through interwoven narratives of real and fictional English (Ger sub) protagonists the film approaches the multifaceted HD 16:9 history of Biosphere 2, a spectacular yet all but Dolby Stereo approx. 90 min forgotten experiment in Arizona. From 1991 to 1993, eight people lived inside this self-sufficient miniature Concept/Editors version of Earth, testing future space colonies and Ralo Mayer exploring global ecology. An archeology of past futures Oliver Gemballa that evokes today’s global challenges, tracing the Camera Ralo Mayer phantoms still haunting the ruins. Oliver Gemballa Viktor Jaschke Ralo Mayer *1976 Eisenstadt Austria Films (selection) Limes (2001 short d) Producer Oliver Gemballa Oliver Gemballa *1972 Hamburg Germany Production Films (selection) Geld und Angst haben wir nicht gekannt Adocs Filmproduktion (2005 short d) San Bernardino (2003 a-g)

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Contact Ralo Mayer Oliver Gemballa project: superwoman Barbara Caspar

Austria In 1933, Aurora Rodriguez shot her 18-year-old German/Spanish daughter, Hildegart, to death when Hildegart refused (Sp/Ger/Eng sub) to go on living the life her mother had devised for her. HD/Digi Beta 1:1.85 color/b&w At the interface of documentary and animation, project: approx. 90 min superwoman takes a close look at the Rodriguez case, exploring in how far its story is reflected in present- Concept day mother-daughter relationships and contemporary Barbara Caspar lifestyles. Camera Enzo Brandner Editor Barbara Caspar *1979 Graz Austria Monika Willi Films (selection) Who’s Afraid of Kathy Acker? (2008 d)

Producers Peter Wirthensohn Tommy Pridnig Production Lotus-Film

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138 >139 Documentary Coming Soon Schubert’s Ghost Bruno Moll

Austria/Switzerland Schubert’s Ghost explores the question of virtuosity in German a person’s life; their ability to survive as human beings. DCP 16:9 Pianist and conductor Marino Formenti has had an stereo 85 min idea. He is going to teach five people from Vienna, Concept from all walks of life and all of them with little prior Bruno Moll knowledge of music, songs from Franz Schubert’s Camera comprehensive œuvre. Marino Formenti confronts the Christian Haake protagonists with Schubert’s songs in several phases in Producers order to plumb their attitudes towards life. Mathias Forberg Viktoria Salcher Bruno Moll *1948 Olten Switzerland Christof Neracher Films (selection) Alpsegen (2012 d) Pizza Bethlehem (2009 d) Production Zu Fuss nach Santiago de Compostela (2007 d) Prisma Film- und Fernsehproduktion (AT) Hugofilm Productions (CH)

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Contact Prisma Film- und Fernsehproduktion Spieler Katharina Copony

Austria Rustem, 23, is a professional poker player. Born and German (Eng sub) raised in Russia, he lives in Berlin and has already DCP won more than 100,000 dollars. He starts traveling stereo approx. 70 min to poker tournaments across Europe. The computer- generated sounds of the online games are occasionally Concept punctuated by the chips’ hypnotic noises. Suddenly, Katharina Copony Rustem sits face to face with his opponents, in a world Camera where competition hangs heavy in the air. Every man Stefan Neuberger Editor for himself, win or lose. The game begins to affect Stefan Stabenow every facet of his life.

Producers Katharina Copony *1972 Graz Austria Michael Kitzberger Films (selection) Oceanul Mare (2009 d) Il Palazzo (2006 Nikolaus Geyrhalter short d) Kanegra (2004 short d) Markus Glaser Wolfgang Widerhofer Production Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion

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140 >141 Documentary Coming Soon Sühnhaus Maya McKechneay

Austria Sühnhaus tells the story of a luckless address: Vienna, German (Eng sub) Schottenring 7, the former site of Ringtheater, where DCP nearly four hundred people died in a fire in 1881. The Dolby SR approx. 90 min film essay, Sühnhaus, takes an associative look at the Austrian monarchy, the First and Second Republic and Concept connects images, events and thoughts that, at first Maya McKechneay glance, do not seem to have much in common. A ghost house movie without ghosts, it uses a piece of the Camera Martin Putz property’s history as an occasion to look for the real Editor skeletons in Austria’s closet. Oliver Neumann Maya McKechneay *1974 Munich Germany Producers Films (selection) Was geht (co-director 2013 d) Oliver Neumann Sabine Moser Production FreibeuterFilm

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Contact FreibeuterFilm Tough Cookies Ruth Kaaserer

Austria Boxing is a brutal sport. A men’s world. But is there a English (Ger sub) difference when women box? Tiffanie loves fast cars HD and beautiful women. An amateur boxer, she wants Dolby Stereo approx. 90 min to qualify for the Olympic Games. Jaci, a professional, eats, drinks and sleeps boxing, living from one fight Concept to the next. Tree, a devout Catholic, quit boxing for an Ruth Kaaserer unsettled, adventurous life as a stuntwoman. All three Camera live on the edge of society, making a living from odd Ruth Kaaserer Editor jobs. As boxers, they do something that is considered Joana Scrinzi male par excellence: being aggressive. Always on the lookout for a challenge – in the ring and in life – their Completion journeys are a daily struggle for survival. A soul search. 2014 Ruth Kaaserer *1972 Kitzbühel Austria Contact Films (selection) In Watte (2001 short d) balance (2000 Ruth Kaaserer short d)

142 >143 Documentary Coming Soon Unten Djordje Ceni´cˇ

Austria Documentary filmmaker Djordje Ceni´cˇ sets out German/Serbo-Croatian on an autobiographical journey that starts in the HD “guestworker” milieu of the Austrian regional capital of stereo approx. 90 min Linz in the 1970s and takes him to his family’s war-torn ancestral village in Croatia. In comically absurd as well Concept as tragic episodes describing small victories and major Djordje Ceni´cˇ defeats, home sickness and class distinctions, the film Hermann Peseckas offers deep insights into the filmmaker’s family history Camera Djordje Ceni´cˇ and illustrates the balancing act between “up there” Hermann Peseckas and “down there” that characterizes generations of Dominik Spritzendorfer migrant workers.

Producer Djordje Ceni´cˇ *1975 Linz Austria Djordje Ceni´cˇ Films (selection) Gastarbajteri (co-director 2007 d) Romski Bal (co-director 2006 d) Der Zeremonienmeister (co-director Completion 2000 short d) 2014

Contact Djordje Ceni´cˇ What we do not see Anna Katharina Wohlgenannt

Austria Andreas Eriksson from Sweden feels something German (Eng sub) we cannot feel or see. It is called electromagnetic DV/Digi Beta 16:9 hyper-sensibility. It is something that has completely Dolby Stereo approx. 70 min changed his life. More and more people say that the continuous increase of electromagnetic technologies Camera such as cell phones and wireless LAN has a strong Judith Benedikt negative impact on their well-being. What we do not Editor see accompanies them in their daily lives. Are there Joana Scrinzi any places left without electromagnetic radiation? A Producer road movie in search of the last “white spots”… Claudia Wohlgenannt Production Anna Katharina Wohlgenannt *1982 Vienna Austria Plan C Filmproduktion Films (selection) Zuhause (2011 short f) Zimmer 34 (2010 short f) Einmal mehr als nur reden (2009 d) Completion 2014

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144 >14 5 Documentary Coming Soon Wir können nicht den hellen Himmel träumen Carmen Tartarotti

Austria The film shows a convent in Alto Adige run by just South Tyrolean dialect two nuns, biological sisters. To make sure that “those (Ger/Eng sub) out there don’t think two nuns no longer make a DV/Digi Beta 16:9 DCP Dolby Stereo convent,” they try to keep up a full range of activities. approx. 90 min The women’s headstrong character and their stubborn insistence on autonomy and self-dependency creates Screenplay situations that are both touching and funny, and Carmen Tartarotti entirely unexpected in a place like this. Ria Endres Camera Carmen Tartarotti Carmen Tartarotti *1950 Latsch Italy Editors Films (selection) Das Schreiben und das Schweigen (2008 d) Ferdinand Ludwig Zwischen Grant und Elend (2006 d) Paradiso del Cevedale Carmen Tarta rotti (1992 d)

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Contact Carmen Tartarotti Wo ich wohne. Ilse Aichingers Blitzlichter der Erinnerung Christine Nagel

Austria The quiet, observing and absurd is the secret of Ilse German (Eng sub) Aichinger’s poetry, a secret preserved in the images of DCP “Where I live. Snapshots of Memory.” Aichinger’s Super stereo approx. 90 min 8 films, which have never been exhibited before, keep alive the amazement at our existence and how we Screenplay/Concept exist. It is a perspective of alienation that allows us to Christine Nagel remain alert to “all attempts of nature and societies to Key Cast put us to sleep”. Engaging all our senses, the film Verena Lercher David Monteiro invites us to explore Ilse Aichinger’s work, which, in its th Moritz Uhl uniqueness, both epitomizes the 20 century and is Camera timeless in its existential dimension. Isabelle Casez Helmut Wimmer Christine Nagel *1969 Wertheim/Main Germany Editor Films (selection) Seegeister (2002 short f) Niki Mossböck

Producer Kurt Mayer Production kurt mayer film

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146 >147 Documentary Coming Soon Young, Female, Egyptian Alexandra Schneider

Austria A documentary about four young Egyptian women English/Arab (Ger sub) with different social backgrounds, united in their fight HD/Digi Beta 1:1.77 for a more just society. For one year, we follow their stereo 90 min everyday lives and their struggle in post-revolutionary Concept Egypt. Eloquent and determined, they fascinate and Alexandra Schneider challenge our clichés and prejudices about Arabic Camera women and the Arab world in general. The revolution Sandra Merseburger has shaped the women and will continue to do so since Editor Alexandra Löwy their fight for justice and gender equality means they incessantly collide with a men-dominated world. Producer Daniela Praher Alexandra Schneider *1979 Münsterlingen Switzerland Production Films (selection) Nutationen (2011 short f) Femina Energetica Daniela Praher (2010 short f) Tante Baum (2009 short d) Filmproduktion

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avant-garde coming soon > Trajectory Martin Music

Austria Attached to helium-filled weather balloons, a camera Multiple languages is slowly borne upwards, towards the stratosphere, (Eng sub) and with it its gaze. An accidental journey, as it were, RAW 2.5K/HD 1:1.85 Dolby Stereo 90 min of the subjective eye towards a complexity of the real. Against conventional filmmaking wisdom, Trajectory Concept deliberately does without any stringent, pre-planned Martin Music causality. Locations, the choice of protagonists and Camera dramaturgy are largely left to chance – the answer, my Nino Leitner Editor friend, is blowing in the wind … Karin Hammer Martin Music *1976 Linz Austria Producer Films (selection) Drauf (2009 short f) lost spaces Martin Music (2007 short d) oida wos (2007 a-g) Production Atelier Music Filmproduktion

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150 >151 Avant-garde Coming Soon Voices Mara Mattuschka

Austria Celebrated tenor Alex Gottfarb is not alone: his “inner German (Eng sub) house” is shared by shy Alexander, sexy Sandra, teen- DV/DCP ager Lex and wunderkind Xandi – split personalities of Dolby Stereo approx. 100 min himself. With the help of a psychoanalyst, Dr. Fränger, and his répétiteur, Helene, who is in love with him, Screenplay Alex gets into contact with the personalities inhabiting Mara Mattuschka his inner world. A cascade of turbulent events and Key Cast tragicomic misunderstandings accompany Alex’ fight for Alexander E. Fennon Sandra Bra identity, love and freedom. Julia Schranz Camera Mara Mattuschka *1959 Sofia Bulgaria Sepp Nermuth Films (selection) Perfect Garden (2013 a-g) Editor Qvid Tvm (2012 a-g) Burning Palace (2010 a-g) Mara Mattuschka

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fiction short coming soon > DMD KIU LIDT Schwitzen Georg Tiller Iris Blauensteiner

The anti-music film DMD KIU LIDT follows the Schwitzen (Sweat) describes the last three band Ja, Panik and their social surroundings days of a friendship between two girls. of fellow musicians. It is a film about the Living in a quiet country village, they roam conditions of music-making in a state of pro- the country side, they go to parties, they longed sadness overshadowed by the times watch videos and swim in the lake. Fed up of a permanent crisis (of capitalism). The ac- with the familiar banalities of everyday life, tors – all musicians – play themselves and at they develop a new, unexpected power. the same time take part in an absurd drama And start acting it out. about art, depression and love. Iris Blauensteiner *1986 Vienna Austria Georg Tiller *1982 Vienna Austria Films (selection) und eine von ihnen singt (2012 Films (selection) Persona Beach (2011 f) a-g) Milch (2009 short f) Doublage (2007 a-g) Vargtimmen – After a Scene by Ingmar Bergman (2010 a-g) km 43.3 Transylvanian Timber (2007 Austria short d) German (Eng sub) HD Austria/Germany Dolby Stereo German (Eng sub) approx. 40 min DV/Digi Beta 1:1.85 b&w mono approx. 50 min Screenplay Iris Blauensteiner Key Cast Michelle Lechner Screenplay Georg Tiller Agnes Wilfinger Ja, Panik Wiltrud Schreiner Key Cast Andreas Spechtl Camera Carolina Steinbrecher Stefan Pabst, Sebastian Janata Editor Linda Reif Camera Claudio Pfeifer Editor Viktor Hoffmann Producer Daniela Praher Production Producer Georg Tiller Daniela Praher Filmproduktion Production naivsuperfilm (AT) spaces production (DE) Completion 2014 Completion 2014 Contact Daniela Praher Filmproduktion Contact naivsuperfilm

154 >155 Fiction Short Coming Soon Seeing Clara Magdalena Lauritsch

When single mom Kathi finds out that her father can no longer look after himself, she returns home after many years away. Painful memories and the behavior of her father, who has completely withdrawn into a world of his own, await her there. To get access to him, Kathi must enter into her father’s imaginary world and thus face her own past.

Magdalena Lauritsch *1988 St. Veit/Glan Austria Films (selection) Masken Masken (2009 short f)

Austria German (Eng sub) HD/Digi Beta 16:9 stereo approx. 22 min

Screenplay Magdalena Lauritsch Peter Hengl Key Cast Sonja Romei Fritz Hörtenhuber Alexandra Timmel Camera Anselm Hartmann Editor Bettine Ties

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Contact Magdalena Lauritsch documentary short coming soon > Autopsy of a Nightmare Les Fables de Monsieur Hubert Sauper Gaudart Nadine Taschler

The success of Darwin’s Nightmare led to a The film is an exploration into the life of a witch-hunt against the film and its director. French cinematographer in Mexico City, Sauper was declared a public enemy in Tan- 50 years after his dubious suicide. Former zania and the protagonists of the film were companions, lovers and family members actually subjected to threats. Autopsy of a are found. They tell the story of “Monsieur Nightmare deciphers the mechanism of this Gaudart”, a Catholic priest, filmmaker, phenomenon, exposing the repressive actions father and member of the French Resis- of powerful lobbies and governments against tance: a man who constantly reinvented intellectuals and individuals who express their himself and slowly became a character in thoughts, hopes and fears in films. his own fantastic story.

Hubert Sauper *1966 Kitzbühel Austria Nadine Taschler *1987 Tulln Austria Films (selection) Darwin’s Nightmare (2004 d) Films (selection) Von Unten (co-director Alone with our stories (2000 d) Kisangani Diary 2009 a-g) Nadine und Caroline (2008 a-g) (1998 d) Soulstriptease (2007 a-g)

Austria Austria German/English German/English/French HD 16 mm 1:1.37 stereo approx. 60 min color/b&w stereo approx. 45 min Concept Hubert Sauper Camera Hubert Sauper Realisation Enzo Brandner Nadine Taschler Barney Broomfield Completion Producer Gabriele Kranzelbinder 2015 Production KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production Contact Nadine Taschler Completion 2014

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158 >159 Documentary Short Coming Soon Networking Noema Alireza Ghanie Christiana Perschon

In Kerala, Southern India, traditional fisher- Audio-visual notes on my encounter with men have been surviving on the bounty of 93-year-old painter Tatjana, who is losing their nets for more than 2000 years. How- her eyesight. I am focusing on the painter’s ever, the impact of the multinational fishing alignment relying more than ever on her industry as well as climate change is leaving experienced hand and imagination. Gestures their nets near empty. The ritual of fishing gently observed through the tips of her hair is a rhythmic choreography of movement interfere with thoughts about the sense of and chant as the nets are hauled to shore, time and a dreamlike reality. Moving images enacting a pure struggle for daily survival. exploring sensory perception beyond seeing.

Alireza Ghanie *1959 Tehran Iran Christiana Perschon *1978 Baden Austria Films (selection) Lesson from Bam (2005 short d) Films (selection) Im Blau (2011 short d) Still in Windspiel (2002 f) Hand in Hand (1994 short d) motion (2010 a-g) Herzklopfen (2005 short d)

Austria Austria Malayalam/English German (Eng sub) DV/Beta SP 16:9 HD stereo 30 min Dolby Stereo approx. 29 min Concept/Editor Alireza Ghanie Realisation Camera Christiana Perschon Alireza Ghanie Jagan Nivas Completion 2014 Completion 2014 Contact Christiana Perschon Contact Alireza Ghanie On 4 Wheels The Pimp and His Trophies Michael Reisecker Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Harry is two when his parents find out that When I was seven, I was at my grandfather’s their son suffers from muscular dystrophy brothel for the first time. We sat on a sofa and will neither be able to walk nor live a in the lobby and he told me a story. When very long life. Today Harry is 31. On 4 Wheels the story got really exciting, he stopped is a documentary road movie traveling into all of a sudden and disappeared with two the film-heart of Europe, to the Cannes Film prostitutes. My grandmother looked away, Festival of 2012, accompanying film buff and blankly, as if she were somewhere else Ulrich Seidl fan Harry on the journey of his entirely. life-time. Antoinette Zwirchmayr *1989 Oberdorf Austria Michael Reisecker *1982 Ried/Innkreis Austria Films (selection) Untitled (2012 a-g) Floaters in Films (selection) Reiseckers Reisen - An Austrian the eye (2011 a-g) Roadmovie (TV series, since 2009 d) Reiseckers Reisen - USA Special (2012 d) Austria German/English Austria 35 mm 1:1.85 German (Ger/Eng sub) approx. 25 min HD 16:9 stereo 55 min Concept Antoinette Zwirchmayr Concept/Camera Camera Michael Reisecker Rosa John Editor Editors Julia Drack Rosa John Antoinette Zwirchmayr Producer Michael Reisecker Producers Production Carmen Weingartshofer Reiseckers Reisen Filmproduktion Antoinette Zwirchmayr

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160 >161 Documentary Short Coming Soon Presence – A Landowner Shops around the corner on a South African Farm Jörg Kalt Patrick Topitschnig

An experimental documentary, Presence The footage of the only never completed film centers on the life of Hertha Mitchell Innes, by our friend, Jörg Kalt, who died in 2007, who moved from Styria to South Africa, forms the basis of our film. Starting from the where she is a member of the controversial portrait of the intersection of Little Italy and class of white landowners. Subtly and Chinatown in NYC and the effect the images unobtrusively chosen images showing from 1999 and today have on each other, everyday life on the farm introduce viewers the film raises questions of origin, cuisine, to the country’s seemingly unbridgeable catastrophes, life and death and talks about ethnic-political and culture-based divides. the eternal search for a corner of this earth that we may call our own. Patrick Topitschnig *1980 Rottenmann Austria Films (selection) rumor macchina (2009 a-g) Jörg Kalt *1967 Suresnes/Paris France † 2007 Zerschneidung des Ganzen (2008 a-g) The Final Films (selection) Crash Test Dummies (2005 f) Girl (2008 a-g) Richtung Zukunft durch die Nacht (2002 short f) Lesen Macht Tot (2000 short f) Austria English (Eng sub) Austria HD 16:9 English (Ger sub) Dolby SR DV/DCP approx. 30 min color/b&w Dolby Stereo Realisation approx. 60 min Patrick Topitschnig Concept Jörg Kalt Producers Screenplay Jörg Kalt, Nina Kusturica Katharina Wallisch Camera Eva Testor Patrick Topitschnig Editor Nina Kusturica

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Contact Mobilefilm Produktion avant-garde short coming soon > #000035189 Back Track Lydia Nsiah Virgil Widrich

#000035189 assembles Super 8 factory Found footage from feature films is edited recordings and digitized found footage. By into an endless loop of ever more intricately transferring ephemeral film material into interlocking flashbacks in 3D, devouring digital video and vice versa, the quality each other in space and time. rating of images and tones in a possible future archive becomes obsolete: image- Virgil Widrich *1967 Salzburg Austria preservation fluctuates between today’s Films (selection) Fast Film (2003 a-g) Copy Shop (2001 a-g) tx-transform (co-director 1998 a-g) hi-tech production, the shift of gaze (from industrial insider to consumer) and the Austria vanishing amateur aesthetics of the first English (Ger sub) common moving picture archive, Super 8. DCP (3D) color/b&w Dolby Digital Lydia Nsiah *1985 Vienna Austria approx. 7 min Films (selection) Les Photos d’Alix are my images too (2011 a-g) Concept Virgil Widrich Austria Editor No dialogue Oleg Prodeus HD 4:3 color/b&w Producer stereo 7 min Virgil Widrich Production Realisation Virgil Widrich Film- Lydia Nsiah und Multimediaproduktion Completion Completion 2014 2014 Contact Contact Lydia Nsiah Virgil Widrich Film- und Multimediaproduktion

164 >165 Avant-garde Short Coming Soon Buildings Camera Johannes Hammel Norbert Pfaffenbichler

Following on from Rooms, Buildings is the The experimental short negotiates the second part of a planned trilogy about the conventions of the invisible camera. In a bare aesthetics of found footage holiday movies room without windows or doors, someone from the 1970s. The protagonists behind puts up a futile fight against the steady gaze the cameras of the holiday films are made of a bodiless camera. The camera evades the visible: found footage blends with newly protagonist’s physical attacks by changing shot scenes to form a fictional narrative position by means of hard cuts. that increasingly drifts towards the surreal. The film seems to hover at the transition Norbert Pfaffenbichler *1967 Steyr Austria between waking and dreaming. Films (selection) A Messenger from the Shadows – Notes on Film 06-A/Monologue 01 (2013 a-g) A Masque of Madness – Notes on Film 06-B/ Johannes Hammel *1963 Basel Switzerland Monologue 02 (2013 a-g) Conference – Notes on Films (selection) Rooms (2013 a-g) Jour Sombre Film 05 (2011 a-g) (2011 a-g) Folge mir (2010 f) Austria Austria DV/Digi Beta 16:9 German (Eng sub) color/b&w S-8 mm/HD Dolby Stereo stereo approx. 25 min approx. 10 min

Realisation Concept/Editor Johannes Hammel Norbert Pfaffenbichler Key Cast Camera Karl Fischer Martin Putz Music Dariusz Kowalski Heinz Ditsch Completion Producer 2014 Johannes Hammel Production hammelfilm Contact Norbert Pfaffenbichler Completion 2014

Contact hammelfilm darkroom Embargo Billy Roisz Johann Lurf

A dark space, darkness, night: designed to An observation of industrial buildings and amplify our senses of sight and hearing in a diverse facilities using precise camera move- restricted environment; and as a space for ment to gather visual knowledge of these projecting our inner states – be they of a structures. psychological (thoughts, streams of images, fears, monsters) or physiological nature, Johann Lurf *1982 Vienna Austria such as optical illusions. Films (selection) Reconnaissance (2012 a-g) Endaevour (2010 a-g) 12 Explosions (2008 a-g)

Billy Roisz *1967 Vienna Austria Austria Films (selection) zounk! (2012 a-g) Chiles en 35 mm 1:1.37 Nogada (2011 a-g) Close Your Eyes (2009 a-g) stereo approx. 29 min

Austria Concept No dialogue Johann Lurf HD 16:9 Dolby SR approx. 13 min Completion 2014 Concept/Editor Billy Roisz Contact Kamera Johann Lurf Lisbeth Kova¤i¤ Billy Roisz Sound Dieter Kova¤i¤ Peter Kutin

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166 >167 Avant-garde Short Coming Soon The Exquisite Corpus Februar Peter Tscherkassky Josephine Ahnelt

Part 2 of my planned “Rushes” pentalogy: A family-portrait – at its center Helene, who The Exquisite Corpus takes off where once gave herself the nickname, Februar Coming Attractions ended, with an (“February”), after her birth month. In 2006, encounter between the acting style of Helene and her husband Omar moved from contemporary cinema transpiring in front Vienna to Cartagena (Colombia) because of the camera and the style of early cinema Austrian laws would not allow him to stay. frontally enacted for the camera. Caught In 2013 Helene’s mother and brother come entirely unawares, several actors in a to visit her. The camera observes what words feature film stumble upon the realm of cannot tell but gestures, expressions and a cinematic wasteland gleaned from the looks can convey. rushes of several commercials. Josephine Ahnelt *1987 Vienna Austria Peter Tscherkassky *1958 Vienna Austria Films (selection) Water from Grain (2013 a-g) Films (selection) Coming Attractions (2010 a-g) Tic Tac (2011 a-g) Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (2005 a-g) Outer Space (1999 a-g) Austria No dialogue Austria 35 mm No dialogue b&w 35 mm 1:1.85 15 min b&w Dolby SR approx. 20 min Realisation Josephine Ahnelt Concept/Producer Peter Tscherkassky Completion Editors 2014 Peter Tscherkassky Eve Heller Contact Sound Josephine Ahnelt Dirk Schaefer

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Contact sixpackfilm The Hungry Sisters Into the Great White Open Michaela Mandel Michaela Grill

There once was a mother of two daughters Into the Great White Open travels through who lived in such abject poverty and des pe- snow and ice. White barren landscapes test ration that she said to her girls: “I will need our eyes, our perception goes all blurry and to slaughter you or we will all starve other- reality fades. Microscopic structures and wise.” The sisters replied: “Dear Mother, we icebergs come into focus just to disappear will go to bed and sleep and not wake up again. Our observation changes the again.” And they lay down and went to sleep surrounding world and no two snowflakes a deep slumber. But the mother look alike. disappeared, never to be seen again. Michaela Grill *1971 Feldbach Austria Michaela Mandel *1972 Salzburg Austria Films (selection) forêt d’expérimentation Films (selection) Sinister Sisters Slaughterhouse (2012 a-g) cityscapes (2007 a-g) (2010 a-g) Die Wunderliche Gasterei (2007 a-g) my kingdom for a lullaby #2 (2004 a-g) Night.Inside. (2006 a-g) Austria Austria No dialogue German (Eng sub) HD 16:9 DV/Beta SP 16:9 color/b&w Dolby Stereo approx. 12 min stereo approx. 20 min

Realisation Realisation Michaela Mandel Michaela Grill

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168 >16 9 Avant-garde Short Coming Soon Mackey vs. Film Odessa Crash Test Klaus Pamminger Norbert Pfaffenbichler

In 1939, when Rudolph M. Schindler’s The short film ironically paraphrases one Pearl M. Mackey apartment building was of film history’s most famous montage completed, crowds laid siege to the movie sequences: the Odessa Steps scene from theaters for Gone with the Wind. In the Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, architect’s home country, Nazi propaganda USSR, 1925). A baby carriage rolls down was under way. And in his hometown, a flight of stairs, ultimately toppling over. Vienna, Mutterliebe (“Mother Love”) was Several film and video cameras record being filmed. This experimental short is the scene. The editing is done in line with dedicated to Schindler’s architecture and Eisenstein’s theory of montage of conflict, modernism. At its center is the Mackey using split screens and hardcore punk rock Penthouse today, starring the two coeval music. protagonists, Mutterliebe and Gone with the Wind. Norbert Pfaffenbichler *1967 Steyr Austria Films (selection) A Messenger from the Shadows – Notes on Film 06-A/Monologue 01 (2013 a-g) Klaus Pamminger *1967 Ebensee Austria A Masque of Madness – Notes on Film 06-B/ Films (selection) Shine Off Me (2011 a-g) Monologue 02 (2013 a-g) Conference – Notes on ri-m#08_Th (2009 a-g) ri-m#07_LP (Version 1) Film 05 (2011 a-g) (2009 a-g) Austria Austria DV/Digi Beta 16:9 No dialogue color/b&w HD 16:9 Dolby Stereo color/b&w approx. 10 min Dolby Digital 13 min Concept/Editor Norbert Pfaffenbichler Realisation Camera Klaus Pamminger Martin Putz Dariusz Kowalski Completion 2014 Completion 2014 Contact Klaus Pamminger Contact Norbert Pfaffenbichler one minute woman Out of Sight Patricia Josefine Marchart Eve Heller one minute woman is a film project that The Währinger Friedhof in Vienna is a for- visualizes gender related role models and gotten Jewish cemetery marked by grave- power structures: from the nun to the stones eroding behind a high stone wall. The callgirl, from the female demon to the lives of people interred and their offspring housewife. Linguistic as well as visual overlap with the rise of photochemical contexts are questioned and dramatized in imaging, analog photography and film. Out of the form of 33 one-minute films. Notions Sight is a cinematic song of remembrance and stereotypes are dissected through and an elegy to fading histories woven out of pathological film images. imagery as technologically disparate as pin- hole photos, glass negatives and Patricia Josefine Marchart *1971 Linz Austria CinemaScopic film footage. Films (selection) Herr Bimbo und seine Negerin (2009 d) The One Dollar Story – Jemen Eve Heller *1961 Northampton USA (co-director 2008 d) Himmelblau (2001 d) Films (selection) Creme 21 (2013 a-g) Self-Examination Remote Control (2009 a-g) Austria Ruby Skin (2005 a-g) German (Eng sub) DV/Digi Beta 16:9 Austria Dolby Stereo No dialogue approx. 33 min 35 mm CinemaScope 1:2.35 b&w stereo Concept/Editor approx. 22 min Patricia Josefine Marchart Camera Concept/Editor Patricia Josefine Marchart Eve Heller Arne Marchart Camera Hans Selikovsky Production Eve Heller Visioncraft Peter Miller

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170 >171 Avant-garde Short Coming Soon Penelope in the Scenery River Plate Reflecting Relations Josef Dabernig Michaela Schwentner

This short film examines possible forms of River Plate displays a micro society in storytelling in an experimental context. A a fragmented body-narration. Knees, woman who has split up with her partner shoulders, feet and bellies are signifiers now tells her story to a friend, assembling of articulated human presence, revealing fragments and pieces. Rather than weaving nothing else against a claustrophobic cloth, this modern-day model of Penelope background of cement, stone and water. – inspired by the figure of Ulysses’ wife – interweaves text fragments to create her Josef Dabernig story. The organization of the narrative *1956 Kötschach-Mauthen Austria Films (selection) Hypercrisis (2011 a-g) partly follows the principle of mise en abîme. Herna (2010 a-g) Hotel Roccalba (2008 a-g) The formal level also follows this principle and consists of fragmented images and Austria reflections. No dialogue 16 mm/Blow up 35 mm 1:1.85 Michaela Schwentner *1970 Linz Austria b&w Films (selection) Un divertissement d’amour stereo 17 min (2013 a-g) Prospects (2011 a-g) des souvenirs vagues (2009 a-g) Concept/Producer Josef Dabernig Austria English Key Cast HD/Digi Beta 16:9 Maria Berrios Dolby Stereo Wolfgang Dabernig 15 min Ingeburg Wurzer Camera Realisation Christian Giesser Michaela Schwentner Editors Key Cast Josef Dabernig Anna Mendelssohn Michael Palm Irene Coticchio Completion Completion 2014 2014 Contact Contact sixpackfilm Michaela Schwentner Taipei Recyclers Twilight Nikki Schuster Siegfried A. Fruhauf

Taipei – ghosts, gods, typhoon and karaoke. The motifs in Twilight consist of active figures Small creatures emerge from the city’s reduced to sketchy outlines, implied shadows urban niches and crevices, created from and backlighting. The protagonists confront trash from the streets and typical local us as figures of light and shadow against products. The creatures’ clanking body the reflective surface of the movie screen. parts interact with Taipei’s soundscape. At the same time, their appearance in the After Paris, Buenos Aires and Berlin, Taipei darkness of the movie house and in the eye is the fourth city about which a Recyclers of the beholder is fleeting. Nothing stays put film has been made. on screen.

Nikki Schuster *1974 Steyr Austria Siegfried A. Fruhauf *1976 Heiligenberg Austria Films (selection) Parasit (2013 a-g) Berlin Films (selection) Exterior Extended (2013 a-g) Recyclers (2012 a-g) Microphobia (2010 a-g) Schwere Augen (2011 a-g) Tranquility (2010 a-g)

Austria/Germany Austria No dialogue No dialogue HD 16:9 35 mm 1:1.85 stereo Dolby SR approx. 7 min approx. 10 min

Realisation Realisation Nikki Schuster Siegfried A. Fruhauf

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172 >173 Avant-garde Short Coming Soon Wotruba Thomas Draschan

Single-frame film shot in and around the church designed by Fritz Wotruba in Vienna’s Mauer district.

Thomas Draschan *1967 Linz Austria Films (selection) Continental Divide (2011 a-g) Delight (2009 a-g) Keynote (2006 a-g)

Austria No dialogue HD stereo 6 min

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176 >17 7 Scholarships for Young Talents holz.erde.fleisch Hotel National Sigmund Steiner Richard Wilhelmer

Documentary Fiction holz.erde.fleisch (wood.soil.flesh) explores A pregnant woman’s adventurous trip in the world of rural farming, goes in search of a dystopian world between realism and a father and the filmmaker’s origins. dream. “To depart from reason, with confi- dence and in the firm conviction that one is Sigmund Steiner *1978 Judenburg Austria following it.” (Michel Foucault) Films (selection) harz (2007 short f) california (2004 short d) firn (2003 short f) Richard Wilhelmer *1983 Judenburg Austria Films (selection) U.F.O.s above Berlin 2 Contact (co-director 2013 short f) Adams Ende (2011 f) Sigmund Steiner Strange Love (2010 a-g)

Contact Richard Wilhelmer Online Dating – How Und mit 12 war ich dann tot to find a date by Friday Barbara Kaufmann Constanze Schumann Documentary Documentary

Is there anyone in our day and age who has The images: scenes of everyday family life. not tried the internet jungle to find the love The sound: a girl talking about the events of their lives on one of the dedicated web- leading up to a murder. Her murder by her sites? Anyone who also happens to live in own father. “And when I was 12, I was dead.” New York, a mecca for singles, and has little dating experience is bound to face absolute Barbara Kaufmann *1978 Klagenfurt Austria madness. Structured like a week’s diary, Films (selection) 23 Rear Windows (2010 short d) Transcript (2005 short f) Online Dating is a survival manual and what- to-do guide for singles. Following the 10 Contact Golden Rules, it is a highly amusing account Barbara Kaufmann of the adventures, feats and defeats of brave New Yorkers.

Constanze Schumann *1980 Vienna Austria Films (as assistant producer) Blutgletscher (2013 f) Inside America (2010 d)

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178 >17 9 Scholarships for Young Talents Wir waren da Stephan Richter

Fiction

A large supermarket is the only meeting place for the people living in Lerchenfeld, the small industrial suburb of Krems. It is here that feisty Julian (14) encounters loner Marko (16). In revolt against the dreary small-town life where consumerism is every- thing, they break into the supermarket one night in an act of adolescent mischief. A brief moment of freedom that Julian will pay for with his life …

Stephan Richter *1980 Dresden Germany Films (selection) Better dead than read (co-director 2011 a-g) The Ride (2011 a-g) Comeback (co-director 2010 short d)

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allahyari filmproduktion A European hammelfilm Brandstätte 5/10 Film Conspiracy Johannes Hammel 1010 Vienna/Austria Gumpendorfer Straße 10-12/23 Film- und Videoproduktion +43 699 104 029 01 1060 Vienna/Austria Schönbrunner Straße 14a/19 [email protected] [email protected] 1050 Vienna/Austria www.soldatejeannette.com +43 699 110 064 13 Amour Fou [email protected] Filmproduktion GmbH FrameLab Film- und Lindengasse 32 Videoproduktion KGP Kranzelbinder 1070 Vienna/Austria Sechshauser Straße 13/29 Gabriele Production +43 1 994 99 11-0 1150 Vienna/Austria Seidengasse 15/3/19 [email protected] +43 1 952 61 48 1070 Vienna/Austria www.amourfou.at [email protected] +43 1 522 22 21 [email protected] Atelier Music FreibeuterFilm www.kgp.co.at Filmproduktion Ziegelofengasse 37/1/9 Hasnerstraße 98 1050 Vienna/Austria Kulturfabrik Austria 1160 Vienna/Austria +43 720 346 510 Peter Kern +43 650 428 13 46 [email protected] Adolf-Loos-Gasse 6/16/26 [email protected] www.freibeuterfilm.at 1210 Vienna/Austria www.martinmusic.at +43 650 863 74 04 Friedrich Ofner [email protected] Cataract Vision Film & Videoproduktion www.peterkern.net Kundmanngasse 10/6 Beingasse 27/14 1030 Vienna/Austria 1150 Vienna/Austria kurt mayer film +43 699 180 200 33 +43 650 530 15 05 Heinestraße 36/1/2 [email protected] [email protected] 1020 Vienna/Austria www.myblindheart.com www.fritzofner.info +43 1 967 89 29 [email protected] Cronos Film Golden Girls www.kurtmayerfilm.com Schwindgasse 11/2 Filmproduktion 1040 Vienna/Austria Seidengasse 15/3/20 La Banda Film +43 1 961 05 22 1070 Vienna/Austria Heinestraße 35/19 [email protected] +43 1 810 56 36 1020 Vienna/Austria www.cronos.at [email protected] +43 660 816 57 55 www.goldengirls.at [email protected] Edoko Institute www.labandafilm.at Film Production groen.film Yukika Kudo/ Oberwiedenstraße 70 Edgar Honetschläger 1170 Vienna/Austria Neulinggasse 23 +43 1 944 18 93 1030 Vienna/Austria [email protected] +43 699 110 655 47 www.groenfilm.at [email protected] [email protected] www.honetschlaeger.com

182 >183 Contact Addresses Lotus Film GmbH nanookfilm PLAESION Mollardgasse 85a/1 Kleine Neugasse 4/1 Film + Vision 1060 Vienna/Austria 1040 Vienna/Austria Schlosshofer Straße 8/4/3 +43 1 786 33 87 +43 699 120 342 00 2301 Groß-Enzersdorf/Austria [email protected] [email protected] +43 1 660 213 69 66 www.lotus-film.at www.nanookfilm.com [email protected] www.plaesion.at LUC Film Navigator Film Westbahnstraße 1a/14 Produktion Plan C 1070 Vienna/Austria Schottenfeldgasse 14 Filmproduktion +43 699 181 212 61 1070 Vienna/Austria Kriemhildplatz 10 [email protected] +43 1 524 97 77 1150 Vienna/Austria [email protected] +43 1 990 63 72 Mischief Films www.navigatorfilm.com [email protected] Goethegasse 1 www.plancfilm.com 1010 Vienna/Austria Nikolaus Geyrhalter +43 1 585 23 24-23 Filmproduktion GmbH Prisma Film- und [email protected] Hildebrandgasse 26 Fernsehproduktion GmbH www.mischief-films.com 1180 Vienna/Austria Rathausstraße 3/18 +43 1 403 01 62 1010 Vienna/Austria Mobilefilm Produktion [email protected] +43 1 406 37 70 Hofgasse 4/4 www.geyrhalterfilm.com [email protected] 1050 Vienna/Austria www.prismafilm.at +43 1 890 24 04 NonPlus Filmproduktion [email protected] Grinzinger Allee 15/1 Produktion www.mobilefilm.at 1190 Vienna/Austria Esther Hassfurther +43 676 549 77 59 Emblgasse 33 Nabis Filmgroup [email protected] 1050 Vienna/Austria Anton-Hall-Straße 5c www.nonplusfilm.com +43 650 840 08 97 5020 Salzburg/Austria [email protected] [email protected] Othmar Schmiderer www.nabisfilm.com Filmproduktion Reiseckers Reisen Kellerhausgasse 1 Filmproduktion naivsuperfilm 3484 Grafenwörth/Austria Oberham 10 Auhofstraße 43 +43 676 602 85 70 4921 Hohenzell/Austria 1130 Vienna/Austria [email protected] +43 650 260 11 82 +43 1 877 23 94 www.othmarschmiderer.at [email protected] [email protected] www.reiseckersreisen.com www.naivsuperfilm.de Production Companies Sales

Ruth Beckermann sixpackfilm Filmproduktion Neubaugasse 45/13 Marc-Aurel-Straße 5/10 1070 Vienna/Austria 1010 Vienna/Austria +43 1 526 09 90-0 +43 699 115 074 98 [email protected] sekretariat@ www.sixpackfilm.com ruthbeckermann.com www.ruthbeckermann.com

Vento Film Leitermayergasse 33/20 1180 Vienna/Austria +43 1 406 03 92 [email protected] www.ventofilm.com

Virgil Widrich Film- und Multimediaproduktions GmbH Lindengasse 32 1070 Vienna/Austria +43 1 523 74 39-0 [email protected] www.widrichfilm.com

184 >185 Contact Addresses Directors

Josephine Ahnelt Gregor Buchhaus Thomas Glänzel Wolfgang-Schmälzl-Gasse 5/13 Buchberggasse 44 Joanelligasse 8/14 1020 Vienna/Austria 3400 Klosterneuburg/Austria 1060 Vienna/Austria +43 664 659 38 17 +43 650 437 63 77 +43 680 233 37 20 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.josephineahnelt.com www.thomasglaenzel.com Djordje Ceni´c ˇ Tina Bara Maxglaner Hauptstraße 19a Jan Groos Bonisdorf 4 5020 Salzburg/Austria Vorgartenstraße 182/9 8384 Minihof-Liebau/Austria +43 650 680 91 55 1020 Vienna/Austria [email protected] [email protected] +43 650 582 91 76 [email protected] Eni Brandner Thomas Draschan www.groosproduktion.com Volkertstraße 25/22 Grüngasse 12/18 1020 Vienna/Austria 1050 Vienna/Austria Sabine Groschup +43 699 115 166 96 [email protected] Grundsteingasse 17/2/12 [email protected] 1160 Vienna/Austria www.enimation.at Philipp Fleischmann +43 699 192 337 65 Brückengasse 6/2/3 [email protected] Susanne Brandstätter 1060 Vienna/Austria Seidengasse 15/2/17 +43 650 775 77 68 Eva Hausberger 1070 Vienna/Austria [email protected] Beingasse 27/14 +43 676 500 78 49 1150 Vienna/Austria [email protected] Siegfried A. Fruhauf +43 650 862 70 88 www.envision-film.com Ramperstorffergasse 52/6 [email protected] 1050 Vienna/Austria Bernhard Braunstein +43 664 488 37 76 Eve Heller Dürnbichlstraße 7b [email protected] [email protected] 5301 Eugendorf/Austria +43 650 214 14 28 Oliver Gemballa Bernhard Hetzenauer [email protected] Annenstraße 16 Jagdschloßgasse 79/25 20359 Hamburg/Germany 1130 Vienna/Austria Jakob Brossmann +49 40 317 50 64 +43 650 918 21 21 Fünkhgasse 9/2 [email protected] bernhard.hetzenauer 3021 Pressbaum/Austria www.adocs.de @gmail.com +43 699 123 547 35 [email protected] Alireza Ghanie hoelb/hoeb Rottmayrgasse 34 Barbara Hölbling/Mario Höber Didi Bruckmayr 5020 Salzburg/Austria Obere Augartenstraße 70/20 Bahnhofstraße 65 +43 650 600 44 00 1020 Vienna/Austria 4050 Traun/Austria [email protected] +43 1 212 24 88 +43 650 422 15 67 [email protected] [email protected] www.hoelbhoeb.com Directors

Andreas Horvath Mike Kren Patricia Josefine Marchart Schwarzenberg Promenade 60 Landstraßer Hauptstraße Linzer Straße 342 5026 Salzburg/Austria 95/2/6b 1140 Vienna/Austria [email protected] 1030 Vienna/Austria +43 676 937 86 74 www.andreashorvath.com +43 680 315 13 42 [email protected] [email protected] www.visioncraft.at Ralf Jacobs Neustiftgasse 121/4 Katharina Lampert Mara Mattuschka 1070 Vienna/Austria Stumpergasse 5/37 Hernalser Hauptstraße 56/6 +43 699 114 147 87 1060 Vienna/Austria 1170 Vienna/Austria [email protected] +43 699 194 360 49 +43 699 115 042 84 [email protected] [email protected] Ruth Kaaserer Martinstraße 23/12 Magdalena Lauritsch Ralo Mayer 1180 Vienna/Austria Kandlgasse 7/1/4 +43 650 725 66 62 +43 680 325 89 66 1070 Vienna/Austria www.was-ist-multiplex.info [email protected] +43 676 671 43 92 [email protected] Manfred Neuwirth Barbara Kaufmann c/o loop media Taborstraße 24a/3/11 Tina Leisch Neubaugasse 40a 1020 Vienna/Austria Ybbsstraße 7/33 1070 Vienna/Austria +43 699 103 281 86 1020 Vienna/Austria +43 1 526 21 93 [email protected] +43 699 194 222 09 [email protected] [email protected] www.manfredneuwirth.at Johanna Kirsch www.kinoki.at Kantnergasse 42/10 Lydia Nsiah 1210 Vienna/Austria Johann Lurf Neustiftgasse 50 +43 699 812 831 04 Reichsratsstraße 17 1070 Vienna/Austria [email protected] 1010 Vienna/Austria [email protected] +43 699 108 145 52 www.lydiansiah.net Elisabeth Maria Klocker [email protected] Kolingasse 13/22 Klaus Pamminger 1090 Vienna/Austria Michaela Mandel Zieglergasse 26/2/9 +43 1 319 28 31 Westbahnstraße 26/19a 1070 Vienna/Austria [email protected] 1070 Vienna/Austria [email protected] +43 664 441 46 30 [email protected] Christiana Perschon Kaiserstraße 6/12 Walter Manoschek 1070 Vienna/Austria Lange Gasse 76/14 +43 676 358 59 64 1080 Vienna/Austria [email protected] +43 676 750 94 74 walter.manoschek @univie.ac.at

186 >187 Contact Addresses Norbert Pfaffenbichler Constanze Schumann Alex Trejo Degengasse 67/17 +43 676 419 12 61 Amerlingstraße 9/7 1160 Vienna/Austria [email protected] 1060 Vienna/Austria +43 699 126 420 46 +43 650 865 64 35 [email protected] Michaela Schwentner [email protected] Wohllebengasse 11/12 Olga Pohankova 1040 Vienna/Austria Oliver Werani Fasangasse 48/12 +43 699 192 310 63 Guntherstraße 5/4 1030 Vienna/Austria [email protected] 1150 Vienna/Austria +43 680 331 56 64 +43 699 191 356 20 [email protected] Sigmund Steiner [email protected] www.olgapohankova.sk Denisgasse 33/1 www.treibstoffderfilm.at 1200 Vienna/Austria Adele Raczkövi +43 699 192 544 45 Richard Wilhelmer Fenzlgasse 8-10 [email protected] Kleine Pfarrgasse 27/1/6 1150 Vienna/Austria 1020 Vienna/Austria +43 680 216 81 97 Carmen Tartarotti +43 664 912 69 85 [email protected] Pariser Straße 11 hello.richardwilhelmer www.adeleworks.com 10719 Berlin/Germany @gmail.com +49 160 934 681 58 www.richardwilhelmer.com Ella Raidel [email protected] Bürgerspitalgasse 29/1 Ludwig Wüst 1060 Vienna/Austria Nadine Taschler Nordbahnstraße 24/30 [email protected] Felberstraße 58/34 1020 Vienna/Austria 1150 Vienna/Austria [email protected] Stephan Richter +43 664 175 43 68 www.film-pla.net [email protected] [email protected] www.stephanrichter.info Antoinette Zwirchmayr Cordula Thym Kirchengasse 44/12 Billy Roisz Linke Wienzeile 102/6 1070 Vienna/Austria Sperrgasse 3/15 1060 Vienna/Austria +43 676 470 35 24 1150 Vienna/Austria +43 699 103 617 12 contact@ +43 650 673 04 84 [email protected] antoinettezwirchmayr.com [email protected] www.antoinettezwirchmayr.com www.billyroisz.klingt.org Patrick Topitschnig Förstergasse 10/4 Nikki Schuster 1020 Vienna/Austria Franz-Mehring-Platz 1/746 +43 650 840 00 54 10243 Berlin/Germany [email protected] +49 177 430 48 55 www.patricktopitschnig.com [email protected] www.fiesfilm.com www.recyclers-project. blogspot.com Index Films

#000035189 ...... 164 Earth’s Golden I can’t cry much louder Die 727 Tage Playground ...... 57 than this ...... 83 ohne Karamo ...... 54 Echte Männer? ...... 120 If that’s so, then Elektro Moskva ...... 58 I’m a murderer ...... 83 Abschied von den Eltern ...... 102 Elephants in Sussex ...... 121 Im Wiener Prater ...... 92 Albatrosse ...... 77 Embargo ...... 166 In the Twinkling of an Eye. And There Was Fire in Emile ...... 122 History and the Open ...... 84 the Center of the Earth ...... 55 Escape to the Other Side ...... 123 Into the Great Die andere Seite ...... 111 Europas Grenzen ...... 124 White Open ...... 168 Anna Through the Mirror ...... 112 Everyday Rebellion ...... 125 Atelier de Conversation ...... 113 exhaustibility ...... 91 (JC{639}) ...... 84 Auf den Tod des Kindes The Exquisite Corpus ...... 167 Jelzin, Punk & Heroin ...... 131 kann nicht verzichtet Exterior Extended ...... 91 werden ...... 114 Kick Out Your Boss ...... 132 Aus einem nahen Land ...... 115 Les Fables de Autopsy of a Nightmare ...... 158 Monsieur Gaudart ...... 158 Lampedusa in Winter ...... 133 Fair Wind – Notes Landfill Fiesta ...... 85 back track ...... 164 of a Traveller...... 59 Last Shelter – Refugee Bianca läuft ...... 116 Fata Morgana ...... 47 Protest in Vienna ...... 134 Buildings ...... 165 Februar ...... 167 Leben hoch 2 ...... 93 Fiori di Strada – Nicht wir Libya Hurra...... 61 Camera ...... 165 sind die Verrückten! ...... 60 China Reverse ...... 117 Focus on Infinity ...... 126 Mackey vs. Film ...... 169 Cinema Futures ...... 118 Der Fotograf Main Hall ...... 93 Creme 21 ...... 89 vor der Kamera ...... 127 Mara Mattuschka_Different CroAX – evoluting errors ...... 89 from left to right, Faces of an Anti-Diva ...... 62 top to bottom ...... 92 Marzenka ...... 78 Dark Liquidity ...... 90 FtWTF ...... 128 A Masque of Madness – darkroom ...... 166 Notes on Film 06-B/ Das ist es, was immer mit Das Gedicht ...... 103 Monologue 02 ...... 72 den Menschen los und mit Gehen am Strand ...... 48 A Messenger from the Shadows den Tieren nicht los ist...... 77 Global Shopping Village ...... 129 – Notes on Film 06-A/ Debts Inc...... 56 Monologue 01 ...... 94 Un divertissement heimatfilm ...... 104 Monumenti ...... 135 d’amour...... 90 holz.erde.fleisch ...... 130, 177 Moving Past Between...... 136 DMD KIU LIDT ...... 154 Hotel National ...... 177 My Blind Heart...... 49 Double Happiness ...... 119 The Hungry Sisters...... 168 Networking ...... 159 The Ninth Biospherian ...... 137 Noema ...... 159

188 >189 Index Odessa Crash Test...... 169 Taipei Recyclers...... 172 Omsch...... 63 Talea...... 51 On 4 Wheels...... 160 Those who go One minute woman...... 170 Those who stay...... 67 Online Dating – How Tough Cookies...... 142 to find a date by Friday...... 178 Trajectory...... 150 Out of Sight...... 170 Treibstoff...... 68 Twilight...... 172 Parabellum...... 105 Parasit...... 94 Und du hast nie Penelope in the Scenery etwas gesehen...... 96 Reflecting Relations...... 171 Und mit 12 war ich Perfect Garden...... 73 dann tot...... 178 Pfitscher...... 78 Unten...... 143 The Phantom Urban Nomads...... 69 of Memory...... 85 The Pimp and Voices...... 151 His Trophies...... 160 VOID...... 79 Presence – A Landowner on a South African Farm...... 161 Water from Grain...... 96 project: superwoman...... 138 Werbung...... 97 What we do not see...... 144 River Plate...... 171 Wir können nicht den Robert Tarantino – A Rebel hellen Himmel träumen...... 145 Without a Crew...... 64 Wir waren da...... 179 Rooms...... 95 Wo ich wohne. Ilse Roque Dalton, let’s shoot Aichingers Blitzlichter the night!...... 65 der Erinnerung...... 146 Wotruba...... 173 Sarah and Sarah...... 106 Schubert’s Ghost...... 139 Young, Female, Egyptian...... 147 Schwitzen...... 154 Seeing Clara...... 155 Serçavan – Above My Eyes...... 66 Shops around the corner...... 161 Sin & Illy...... 107 Soldate Jeannette...... 50 Sound on Film...... 95 Spieler...... 140 Sühnhaus...... 141 Index Directors

Ahnelt Josephine ...... 96, 167 Gemballa Oliver ...... 137 Mandel Michaela ...... 168 Allahyari Houchang ...... 64 Ghanie Alireza ...... 159 Manoschek Walter...... 83 Glänzel Thomas ...... 97 Marchart Bara Tina ...... 116 Gladik Ulli ...... 129 Patricia Josefine ...... 170 Beckermann Ruth ...... 67 Grill Michaela ...... 168 Mattuschka Mara ...... 73, 151 Benedikt Judith ...... 117 Gröller Friedl vom...... 92 Mayer Ralo ...... 137 Bergmann Birgit ...... 68 Groen Elke ...... 95 McKechneay Maya ...... 141 Blauensteiner Iris ...... 154 Groos Anna ...... 77 Meisl Albert ...... 78 Brandner Eni ...... 91 Groos Jan ...... 77 Molina Catalina ...... 38 Brandstätter Susanne ...... 112 Groschup Sabine ...... 84 Moll Bruno ...... 139 Braunstein Bernhard ...... 113 Gutweniger Julia ...... 78 Mückstein Katharina ...... 51 Brossmann Jakob ...... 133 Music Martin ...... 150 Bruckmayr Didi ...... 90 Hammel Johannes ...... 95, 165 Brunner Peter ...... 49 Hansbauer Ursula...... 121 Nagel Christine ...... 146 Buchhaus Gregor ...... 69 Haring Chris ...... 73 Neubacher Christian ...... 95 Burger Joerg ...... 126 Hausberger Eva ...... 135 Neuwirth Manfred ...... 115 Hauzenberger Nsiah Lydia ...... 164 Cambrinus Robert ...... 83 Gerald Igor ...... 134 Can Ali ...... 66 Heller Eve ...... 89, 170 Ofner Astrid ...... 102 Caspar Barbara ...... 138 Hengge Maria ...... 107 Ofner Fritz ...... 61 Ceni´cˇ Djordje ...... 143 Hetzenauer Bernhard ...... 55 Copony Katharina ...... 140 Höber Mario ...... 93 Palm Michael...... 32, 118 Covi Tizza ...... 28, 122, 127 Hölbling Barbara ...... 93 Pamminger Kurt ...... 169 Hoesl Daniel ...... 50 Perschon Christiana...... 159 Dabernig Josef ...... 40, 171 Honetschläger Edgar...... 63 Pfaffenbichler Derschmidt Friedemann ...... 85 Horvath Andreas ...... 57 Norbert ...... 26, 72, 94, 165, 169 Draschan Thomas ...... 173 Hund Harald ...... 30 Pfaundler Caspar ...... 48 Pohankova Olga ...... 60 Eckert Eva ...... 56 Jacobs Ralf ...... 123 Raczkövi Adele ...... 89 Fleischmann Philipp ...... 93 Kaaserer Ruth ...... 142 Raidel Ella ...... 119 Franz Stefanie ...... 68 Kalt Jörg ...... 161 Rauchensteiner Meinhard ...... 96 Frimmel Rainer ...... 28, 122, 127 Kaufmann Barbara ...... 178 Reisecker Michael ...... 160 Fruhauf Kern Peter ...... 106 Renoldner Thomas ...... 24 Siegfried A...... 36, 91, 172 Kirsch Johanna ...... 136 Riahi Arash T...... 125 Fürhapter Thomas ...... 114 Klocker Elisabeth M...... 62 Riahi Arman T...... 125 Kofler Florian ...... 78 Richter Stephan ...... 179 Konrad Wolfgang ...... 121 Rinner Lukas Valenta...... 105 Kren Mike ...... 77 Roisz Billy ...... 166

Lampert Katharina ...... 128, 136 Lauritsch Magdalena ...... 155 Leisch Tina ...... 65, 66, 120 Löcker Ivette ...... 131 Lukacs Stefan ...... 79 Lurf Johann ...... 166

190 >191 Index Salomonowitz Anja...... 54 Sauper Hubert...... 158 Scharang Elisabeth...... 132 Schmiderer Othmar...... 84 Schneider Alexandra...... 147 Schreiner Peter...... 47 Schumann Constanze...... 178 Schuster Nikki...... 94, 172 Schwentner Michaela...... 90, 171 sebastian j. f...... 124 Spritzendorfer Dominik...... 58 Stachel Clemens...... 121 Steiner Sigmund...... 130, 177 Summereder Angela...... 84

Tartarotti Carmen...... 145 Taschler Nadine...... 158 Thym Cordula...... 128 Tikhonova Elena...... 58 Tiller Georg...... 154 Topitschnig Patrick...... 161 Trejo Alex...... 103 Tscherkassky Peter...... 22, 167

Watzal Flora...... 92 Weigel Bernadette...... 59 Wenninger Paul...... 34 Werani Oliver...... 68 Widauer Nives...... 96 Widrich Virgil...... 164 Wilhelmer Richard...... 177 Wohlgenannt Anna Katharina...... 144 Wohlgenannt Claudia...... 85 Wüst Ludwig...... 104

Zdesar Judith...... 111 Zwirchmayr Antoinette...... 160